Kaspersky Security

1 month ago | securelist.com | Igor Kuznetsov |Boris Larin |Kaspersky GERT |Kaspersky Security

In mid-March 2025, Kaspersky technologies detected a wave of infections by previously unknown and highly sophisticated malware. In all cases, infection occurred immediately after the victim clicked on a link in a phishing email, and the attackers’ website was opened using the Google Chrome web browser. No further action was required to become infected. All malicious links were personalized and had a very short lifespan.

Jan 17, 2024 | securelist.com | Sergey Lozhkin |Anna Pavlovskaya |Kaspersky Security |Boris Larin

An overview of last year’s predictionsA data leakage is a broad term encompassing various types of information that become publicly available, or published for sale on the dark web or other shadow web sites. Leaked information may include internal corporate documents, databases, personal and work login credentials, and other types of data. Last year, we predicted that personal data and corporate email would increasingly be at risk, and the prediction proved largely accurate.

Dec 12, 2023 | securelist.com | Kaspersky Security |Sergey Puzan |Anton Kivva |David Emm

Every year is abundant with major data leaks, biggest data breaches and hacks drawing massive media attention (such as Medibank and Optus data breach, Twitter data breach, and Uber and Rockstar compromise in 2022 and in T-Mobile, MailChimp and  OpenAI in 2023). But are we really conscious of the true scale of the threat? To find out, in 2022 we created a list of 700 companies worldwide from different industries: industrial, telecommunication, financial, retail, and others.

May 23, 2023 | securelist.com | Giampaolo Dedola |Dmitry Kalinin |Kaspersky Security |Vitaly Kamluk

GoldenJackal is an APT group, active since 2019, that usually targets government and diplomatic entities in the Middle East and South Asia. Despite the fact that they began their activities years ago, this group is generally unknown and, as far as we know, has not been publicly described. We started monitoring the group in mid-2020 and have observed a constant level of activity that indicates a capable and stealthy actor.

May 2, 2023 | securelist.com | Kaspersky Security |Pierre Delcher |Ivan Kwiatkowski |Victoria Vlasova

Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response (MDR) is a service for 24/7 monitoring and response to detected incidents based on technologies and expertise of Kaspersky Security Operations Center (SOC) team. MDR allows detecting threats at any stage of the attack – both before anything is compromised and after the attackers have penetrated the company’s infrastructure. This is achieved through preventive security systems and active threat hunting – the essential MDR components.