272 Million Email Accounts Hacked
One of the biggest cyber attacks ever has left millions of email users at risk from being hacked. 272 million email accounts have been compromised, with Russian hackers obtaining user names and passwords. Gmail, Yahoo and Microsoft mail users are all thought to have been targeted, although the majority of the hack appears to have hit Mail.ru […]
Ransom Aware: Kaspersky Lab Detected a 14 per Cent Increase in New Ransomware Modifications in Q1 2016
Ransomware has overtaken news about APT attacks to become the main topic of the quarter. According to Kaspersky Lab’s Q1 malware report, the company’s experts detected 2,900 new malware modifications during the quarter, an increase of 14 per cent on the previous quarter. Kaspersky Lab’s database now includes about 15,000 ransomware modifications, and the number […]
Google Being Given Access to NHS Data
In light of Google being given access to NHS data, David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab commented below. David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab: The news of Google being given access to NHS data is an interesting development, not least because this agreement brings the issue from the theoretical ‘Are you […]
New Global Botnet Campaign ‘JAKU’ Unveiled
Forcepoint Security Labs Special Investigations team has discovered and documented a global botnet affecting thousands of victims – we call this investigation “JAKU”. What is JAKU? JAKU is the name of the investigation by the Forcepoint Security Labs Special Investigations team into a botnet campaign. Obscured by the noise of thousands of seemingly indiscriminate botnet […]
Don’t Wave the White Flag: Practical Steps to Avoid and Stop Ransomware Before It’s Too Late
Another day, another hospital shut down by ransomware. And while going back to pen and paper and avoiding anything connected to the web may start to sound like a valid option, it’s not a realistic one. You can’t just throw in the towel or wave the white flag. However, there are a few practical steps […]
The Anatomy of a Banker Malware – Unraveling Marcher
Recently, the Check Point research team had the opportunity to analyze a mobile banker malware attack from end-to-end. Our team managed to lay hands on the infiltration vector, the malware itself, and the attacker’s Command and Control (C&C) servers. This attack gave us a rare chance to understand the full flow of an attack from […]
