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Spam and phishing in 2020

Figures of the year In 2020: The share of spam in email traffic amounted to 50.37%, down by 6.14 p.p. from 2019. Most spam (21.27%) originated in Russia. Kaspersky solutions detected a total of 184,435,643 malicious attachments. The email antivirus was triggered most frequently by email messages containing members of the Trojan.Win32.Agentb malware family. The […] more…

Magnitude exploit kit – evolution

Exploit kits are not as widespread as they used to be. In the past, they relied on the use of already patched vulnerabilities. Newer and more secure web browsers with automatic updates simply do not allow known vulnerabilities to be exploited. It was very different back in the heyday of Adobe Flash because it’s just […] more…

Malware Mines, Steals Cryptocurrencies From Victims

How’s your Bitcoin balance? Interested in earning more? The value of cybercurrency is going up. One way to increase your holdings is by “mining,” which is legal as long as it is done with the proper permissions. Using your own mining equipment or establishing a formal agreement for outsourcing are two methods. Hardware vendors such […] more…

ProMediads Malvertising and Sundown-Pirate Exploit Kit Combo Drops Ransomware and Info Stealer

With additional insights/analysis from Chaoying Liu We’ve uncovered a new exploit kit in the wild through a malvertising campaign we’ve dubbed “ProMediads”. We call this new exploit kit Sundown-Pirate, as it’s indeed a bootleg of its precursors and actually named so by its back panel. ProMediads has been active as early as 2016, employing Rig […] more…

RATANKBA: Delving into Large-scale Watering Holes against Enterprises

In early February, several financial organizations reported malware infection on their workstations, apparently coming from legitimate websites. The attacks turned out to be part of a large-scale campaign to compromise trusted websites in order to infect the systems of targeted enterprises across various industries. The strategy is typically known as a “watering hole” attack. It […] more…

The Hunt for Lurk

In early June, 2016, the Russian police arrested the alleged members of the criminal group known as Lurk. The police suspected Lurk of stealing nearly three billion rubles, using malicious software to systematically withdraw large sums of money from the accounts of commercial organizations, including banks. For Kaspersky Lab, these arrests marked the culmination of […] more…

IT threat evolution in Q2 2016. Statistics

Download the full report (PDF) All the statistics used in this report were obtained using Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a distributed antivirus network that works with various anti-malware protection components. The data was collected from KSN users who agreed to provide it. Millions of Kaspersky Lab product users from 213 countries and territories worldwide participate […] more…

KSN Report: Mobile ransomware in 2014-2016

Part 1. KSN Report: PC ransomware in 2014-2016 Download PDF version Statistics The activity of mobile ransomware, although not as widely covered in the media as PC ransomware, also skyrocketed over the period covered by this report. Especially in the second half. Fig. 12: The number of users encountering mobile ransomware at least once in […] more…

Why Ransomware Works: Arrival Tactics

By Jon Oliver and Joseph C. Chen Apart from understanding the ransomware tactics and techniques beyond encryption, it is equally important to understand how they arrive in the environment. Our recent analysis reveals that majority of ransomware families can be stopped at the exposure layer—web and email. In fact, Trend Micro has blocked more than […] more…

IT threat evolution in Q1 2016

Download PDF version Q1 figures According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab solutions detected and repelled 228,420,754 malicious attacks from online resources located in 195 countries all over the world. 74,001,808 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by web antivirus components. Kaspersky Lab’s web antivirus detected 18,610,281 unique malicious objects: scripts, exploits, executable files, etc. There […] more…

Kaspersky Security Bulletin. Spam and phishing in 2015

Download PDF The year in figures According to Kaspersky Lab, in 2015 The proportion of spam in email flows was 55.28%, which is 11.48 percentage points lower than in 2014. 79% of spam emails were no more than 2 KB in size. 15.2% of spam was sent from the US. 146,692,256 instances that triggered the […] more…

3,000 High-Profile Japanese Sites Hit By Massive Malvertising Campaign

Malvertising and exploit kits work hand-in-hand – and are an amazingly effective threat that keeps victimizing users over and over again. The latest victim? Users in Japan. Since the start of September, almost half a million users have been exposed to a malvertising campaign powered by the Angler exploit kit. This particular attack was highly targeted […] more…

Windows 10’s New Browser Microsoft Edge: Improved, But Also New Risks

Last week we discussed how Microsoft Edge, the new browser in Windows 10, represented a significant increase in the security over Internet Explorer. However, there are also new potential threat vectors that aren’t present in older versions. Integrated plug-ins Microsoft Edge has now integrated two widely used plug-ins into the browser itself: Adobe Flash and a PDF reader. […] more…

Who’s Really Spreading through the Bright Star?

Security researchers recently announced that that the official website for the Korean Central News Agency of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been serving malware disguised as a Flash Player update. The immediately conspicuous code is still active on the KCNA front page. The javascript variables at the top of the front page source […] more…

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