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December 20, 2019 Security

2019 – The year of ransomware attacks on municipalities: Kaspersky

Kaspersky’s researchers found that at least 174 municipal institutions, with over 3,000 subset organizations have been targeted by ransomware during this year.

December 18, 2019 Security

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.

October 23, 2019 Security

Smart devices detected 105 million attacks in H1 2019

Smart devices detected 105 million IoT attacks from 276,000 unique IP addresses in the first half of 2019, revealed Kaspersky data.

September 23, 2019 Security

Lazarus’ 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

July 25, 2019 Security

60 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.

June 14, 2019 Security

SonicWall 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.

May 25, 2019 Security

Malware 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.

May 24, 2019 Security

Daily 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

May 23, 2019 Security

India 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.

December 10, 2018 Security

New 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.