Kaspersky’s researchers found that at least 174 municipal institutions, with over 3,000 subset organizations have been targeted by ransomware during this year.
Read More2019 – The year of ransomware attacks on municipalities: Kaspersky
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Mobile scams, smart malspam, IoT malware, botnets to rule in 2020: Avast
Avast, a global online security provider has announced its cybersecurity predictions for 2020 in its annual Threat Landscape Report.
Read MoreOver 100 million attacks on smart devices detected in H1 2019 : Kaspersky
Smart devices detected 105 million IoT attacks from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first half of 2019, revealed Kaspersky data.
Read MoreLazarus’ DTrack spy-tool hits financial bodies, research centers: Kaspersky
Kaspersky Global Research and Analysis Team have discovered a previously unknown spy tool, which had been spotted in Indian financial institutions and research centers
Read More60 pc rise in users hit by password stealers in 2019: Kaspersky
Kaspersky’s data showed the number of users, targeted by the password stealers, peaked from less than 600,000 in the first half of 2018 to over 940,000 during the same period in 2019.
Read MoreSonicWall research team reveals cyber attack linked to TrickBot malware family
This variant has been written by developers with slick development skills wrapping its core functionality with a “Squirrel Shooting Game” code base to throw off initial analysis.
Read MoreMalware stealing bank account info rises 58 pc in Q1, 2019 : Kaspersky Lab
In Q1,2019, Kaspersky Lab detected around 30,000 modifications of various families of banking Trojans, trying to attack 312,235 unique users.
Read MoreDaily over 8000 Emotet malware intrusions hitting Indian enterprises: Seqrite
From 2018, Emotet has become a pain for enterprises because of its polymorphic, self-updating and spreading capabilities
Read MoreIndia second on the top phishing hosting nations’ list : RSA
According to the RSA Quarterly Fraud Report for 2019, Q1, India stands second to the U.S. on the list of top 10 phishing hosting countries in the world.
Read MoreNew backdoors malware increased over 40 pc in 2018 : Kaspersky report
One in three (30.01%) computers encountered at least one online malicious threat in 2018. Taken together, these results show that malware, and backdoors and ransomware in particular remains significant risk for computer users.
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