Kaspersky researchers have been tracking attack campaigns from the DeathStalker hack-for-hire group since 2018. Recent analysis shows that the threat actor updated its evasive “VileRat” toolset to attack cryptocurrency and foreign currency exchange companies in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, the Grenadines, Kuwait, Malta, the United Arab Emirates and Russia in 2022.Read More…
Kaspersky analysis has revealed that attacks related to data loss threats (phishing and scam/social engineering) increased significantly in Q2 2022 at 168% in comparison with the previous quarter in Saudi Arabia – the company’s security solutions have detected 5,808,946 phishing attacks in Saudi Arabia in Q2. Social engineering which isRead More…
Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) analysis has revealed that attacks related to data loss threats (phishing and scams/social engineering) increased significantly in Africa in Q2 2022 in comparison with the previous quarter. The company’s security solutions detected 10,722,886 phishing attacks in Africa in Q2. Kenyan users were influenced the most by this typeRead More…
On July 26, using the internal automated system for monitoring open-source repositories, Kaspersky researchers identified a malicious campaign dubbed LofyLife. The campaign employed 4 malicious packages spreading Volt Stealer and Lofy Stealer malware in the open-source npm repository to gather various information from victims, including Discord tokens and credit cardRead More…
According to the Kaspersky Digital Payment survey, 57% of respondents from Saudi Arabia faced phishing scams when using online banking or mobile wallet services. 46% have personally encountered fake websites, and 58% — scams (via texts or calls) using social engineering. When asked about awareness of threats against digital paymentRead More…
Kaspersky experts have shared details on new malicious activity they discovered, in which attackers launched a fraudulent website marking the 30th anniversary of the technology company, Nvidia. The site invited visitors to participate in a 50-thousand bitcoin giveaway while asking them to first make a donation. The page contains aRead More…
According to a new ESG study, ‘SOC Modernization and the Role of XDR’ commissioned by Kaspersky, almost three-in-four (70%) respondent organizations struggle to keep up with the volume of alerts generated by security analytics tools. This results in a lack of resources for important strategic tasks and leads organizations towardsRead More…
Kaspersky experts have brought to light a poorly detected SessionManager backdoor that was set up as a malicious module within the Internet Information Services (IIS), a popular web server edited by Microsoft. Once propagated, SessionManager enables a wide range of malicious activities, starting from collecting emails to complete control overRead More…
