SpyEye Developers Sentenced to 24 Years in Prison
Two individuals suspected of developing and distributing the notorious SpyEye Trojan have been sentenced to a combined 24 years and six months in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. read more more…SpyEye Creator Sentenced to 9 Years in Federal Prison
The creator of the banking malware SpyEye, Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, has just been sentenced to 9 ½ years in federal prison on charges related to creating and distributing SpyEye. This is the latest development in a saga that first saw the arrest of Panin in 2013. In early 2014, he had pleaded guilty to charges […] more…SpyEye-using Cybercriminal Arrested in Britain
We’ve recently seen multiple arrests and take downs of cybercriminals and their infrastructure. Here is another one to add up. Law Enforcement in England has arrested and prosecuted a cybercriminal called Jam3s in cooperation with Trend Micro. His real identity is James Bayliss. James ran some SpyEye command-and-control servers and also coded a SpyEye plugin […] more…Eyeing SpyEye
Earlier this week, it was announced by the United States Department of Justice that the creator of the notorious SpyEye banking malware, Aleksandr Andreevich Panin (also known as Gribodemon or Harderman), had pleaded guilty before a federal court to charges related to creating and distributing SpyEye. Trend Micro was a key part of this investigation […] more…IT threat evolution Q1 2020. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts for Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky solutions blocked 726,536,269 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe. A total of 442,039,230 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. […] more…IT threat evolution Q1 2020. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts for Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky solutions blocked 726,536,269 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe. A total of 442,039,230 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. […] more…IT threat evolution Q1 2020. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts for Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky solutions blocked 726,536,269 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe. A total of 442,039,230 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. […] more…IT threat evolution Q1 2020. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts for Kaspersky products received from users who consented to providing statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky solutions blocked 726,536,269 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe. A total of 442,039,230 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. […] more…Uncovering threat infrastructure via URL, domain and IP address advanced pivots a.k.a. Netloc Intelligence
Quick links:https://support.virustotal.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001387057https://developers.virustotal.com/v3.0/reference#intelligence-searchhttps://github.com/VirusTotal/vt-py Ten years ago, VirusTotal launched VT Intelligence; a critical component of VT Enterprise which offers users the capability to search over VirusTotal’s dataset using advanced search modifiers. VT Intelligence allows security professionals to pinpoint malware based on its structural, behavioural, binary, metadata, etc. properties to uncover entire threat campaigns. For example, the following […] more…IT threat evolution Q3 2019. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network: Kaspersky solutions blocked 989,432,403 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe. 560,025,316 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by […] more…IT threat evolution Q2 2019. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky solutions blocked 717,057,912 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe. 217,843,293 unique URLs triggered Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by malware designed to steal […] more…IT threat evolution Q1 2019. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky Lab products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 843,096,461 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe. 113,640,221 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted […] more…Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2018. Story of the year: miners
Cryptocurrency miners that infect the computers of unsuspecting users essentially operate according to the same business model as ransomware programs: the victim’s computing power is harnessed to enrich the cybercriminals. Only in the case of miners, it might be quite a while before the user notices that 70–80% of their CPU or graphics card power […] more…IT threat evolution Q3 2018. Statistics
These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky Lab products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Q3 figures According to Kaspersky Security Network: Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked 947,027,517 attacks launched from online resources located in 203 countries. 246,695,333 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus components. Attempted infections by […] more…What are botnets downloading?
Spam mailshots with links to malware and bots downloading other malware are just a couple of botnet deployment scenarios. The choice of infectious payload is limited only by the imagination of the botnet operator or customer. It might be a ransomware, a banker, a miner, a backdoor, the list goes on, and you don’t need […] more…Operators of Counter Antivirus Service Scan4You Sentenced
In May 2017, one of the biggest facilitators of cybercrime, Scan4You, went offline after the two main suspects, Ruslans Bondars and Jurijs Martisevs, were arrested in Latvia and extradited to the U.S. by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In May 2018, the case against the Scan4You’s operators concluded in a Virginia federal courtroom. The […] more…More information
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