Shamoon-Linked “StoneDrill” Malware Allows Spying, Destruction
Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have come across a new and sophisticated piece of malware that can be used for both cyber espionage and wiping an infected computer’s storage. Dubbed “StoneDrill,” the malware has been linked to the notorious Shamoon 2 and Charming Kitten, aka Newscaster and NewsBeef, a threat actor believed to be located in…
Mac Malware Reaches New Highs
Two new malware threats in a week this past month, plus others in January, brings the 2017 Mac malware count up to 6 – and growing. On Valentine’s Day, Mac users got a special “treat” in the form of new malware. That same week, there were signs of yet another piece of malware looming. These threats…
Explained: Bayesian spam filtering
Bayesian spam filtering is based on Bayes rule, a statistical theorem that gives you the probability of an event. In Bayesian filtering it is used to give you the probability that a certain email is spam. Named after the statistician Rev. Thomas Bayes who provided an equation that basically allows new information to update the…
The Era Of Data-Jacking Is Here. Are You Ready?
As data in the cloud becomes more valuable, the cost of weak security will soon be higher than many organizations can bear. Here’s why. The past few months have seen a deluge of attacks on database deployments in production environments. Victor Gevers, an ethical hacker and founder of GDI Foundation, broke news about attacks on…
Android for cars: Secure connection?
Fast-forward 17 years and there are apps for everything — even your car. Chances are, if an app might make part of your life easier, someone will develop it and plenty of people will use it. Over the past few years, the concept of the connected car has continued to evolve — and become reality….
‘Shock And Awe’ Ransomware Attacks Multiply
RSA CONFERENCE 2017 – San Francisco – The data-hostage crisis isn’t going away anytime soon: In fact, it’s starting to get a lot scarier and destructive, and with a more unpredictable outcome. Security experts long have warned that ponying up with the ransom fee only plays into the hands of ransomware attackers; it doesn’t necessarily…
Simulation Shows Threat of Ransomware Attacks on ICS
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have demonstrated the potential impact of ransomware on industrial control systems (ICS) by simulating an attack aimed at a water treatment plant. David Formby, a Ph.D. student in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and his faculty advisor, Raheem Beyah, identified several commonly used programmable…
The Interconnected Nature Of International Cybercrime
Flashpoint analysts monitoring a top-tier Russian hacking forum recently observed an actor who goes by the pseudonym “flokibot,” developing a Trojan known as “Floki Bot.” While the malware uses source code from the ZeuS Trojan, the actor reinvented the initial dropper process injection to instead target point-of-sale (PoS) terminals. The Floki Bot Trojan is not…
Threat Actors will come up with new Targeted Attack Tactics that Circumvent Current Anti-evasion Solutions
In the Trend Micro 2017 Security Predictions report, we cover many of the threats that organizations will have to deal with this year and none could be more challenging that a targeted attack. We recently saw a report from the Identity Theft Resource Center which said 2016 had the most data breaches in US history….
Can you get back stolen money?
People truly enjoy the perks of the digital era and tend to shop and pay online or via mobile banking. Research commissioned by Kaspersky Lab confirmed that the majority of users (81%) rely on the Internet in their financial routines, and almost half of them (44%) store financial data on their devices. And yet, only…