Kaspersky has discovered a new fraudulent scheme targeting hotel owners and staff, with fraudsters attempting to steal credentials or infect computers with malware. The fraudulent emails, posing as correspondence from former or potential guests, exploit the hospitality industry’s emphasis on customer service to ensnare victims.Read More…

Global law enforcement recently announced Operation Endgame, a widespread effort to disrupt malware and botnet infrastructure and identify the alleged individuals associated with the activity. In a press release, Europol called it the “largest ever operation against botnets, which play a major role in the deployment of ransomware.”Read More…

As the malware development market continues to flourish with new stealers, such as Lumma, for the last three years, Redline has remained the dominant data-stealing malware used by cybercriminals. Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence finds that more than half of every device (55%) targeted by password-stealer attacks in 2023 has beenRead More…

Nearly 10 million devices fell victim to data-stealing malware in 2023, Kaspersky Digital Footprint Intelligence has revealed, drawing from insights gathered from infostealer malware log files traded on underground markets. With cybercriminals pilfering an average of 50.9 login credentials per infected device, the threat posed by data-stealers is growing forRead More…

Picus Security, the Security Validation company, has released the Picus Red Report 2024. This fourth annual report shares learnings from an in-depth analysis of more than 600,000 real-world malware samples and identifies the most common techniques leveraged by attackers.Read More…