Q2 was a busy time for cybercriminals

More than half (51%) of the Web-borne attacks blocked by Kaspersky Lab’s products in the second quarter of 2015 were launched from malicious Web resources in Russia, according to the company’s Q2 cyber-threats report. Next on the list came the US, the Netherlands,...

Video surveillance systems under attack

Security examination of a working city video surveillance system by Kaspersky Lab has revealed that networks designed to help protect people from criminals and terrorists could be misused by a third party exploiting system configuration flaws. It is no secret that...

Cybercriminals mix the old and the new

A combination of newer and older threat variations defined the cybersecurity landscape in the first quarter of 2015. Malvertising, zero-day vulnerability exploitation, “old-school” macro malware and the decade-old FREAK vulnerability are just a few of the highlights...

Cybercriminals take aim at each other

Kaspersky Lab has recorded a rare and unusual example of one cybercriminal attacking another. In 2014, Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyberespionage group targeting mostly government and diplomatic organisations in Asia, was subjected to a...

How hackers are raking it in

Cybercriminals could be raking in profits 20-times greater than the cost of their attacks. Kaspersky Lab research compared the cost of the most frequently used hacker tools with the money stolen in a successful malicious operation. “Buying malware is currently...