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1 month ago | 
ffnews.com | Lauren Hinton |Olga Svistunova
In 2024, as digital financial transactions continued to expand worldwide, cybercriminals shifted their focus toward mobile devices and crypto assets. According to Kaspersky’s new Financial Cyberthreats report, the number of users encountering mobile banking Trojans rose by 3.6 times compared to 2023, while crypto‑related phishing detections climbed by 83.4%. Meanwhile, PC‑focused malware saw a decline in traditional banking attacks but a surge in crypto‑asset theft.
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Jun 25, 2024 | 
securelist.com | Kaspersky ICS CERT |Georgy Kiguradze |Olga Svistunova |Anton Kivva
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are increasingly targeted by cybercriminals. Despite adopting digital technology for remote work, production, and sales, SMBs often lack robust cybersecurity measures. SMBs face significant cybersecurity challenges . The cost of data breaches can cripple operations, making preventive measures essential. This is a growing tendency that continues to pose a challenge for businesses.
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Jun 24, 2024 | 
securelist.com | Anderson G. Leite |Sergey Belov |Georgy Kiguradze |Olga Svistunova
Part 1: XZ backdoor story – Initial analysisPart 2: Assessing the Y, and How, of the XZ Utils incident (social engineering)In our first article on the XZ backdoor, we analyzed its code from initial infection to the function hooking it performs. As we mentioned then, its initial goal was to successfully hook one of the functions related to RSA key manipulation.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
securelist.com | Alexey Antonov |Olga Svistunova |Anton Kivva |David Emm
The processing power of computers keeps growing, helping users to solve increasingly complex problems faster. A side effect is that passwords that were impossible to guess just a few years ago can be cracked by hackers within mere seconds in 2024. For example, the RTX 4090 GPU is capable of guessing an eight-character password consisting of same-case English letters and digits, or 36 combinable characters, within just 17 seconds.
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Jun 10, 2024 | 
securelist.com | Olga Svistunova |Dmitry Kachan |Alina Sukhanova |Kaspersky ICS CERT
IntroductionTwo-factor authentication (2FA) is a security feature we have come to expect as standard by 2024. Most of today’s websites offer some form of it, and some of them won’t even let you use their service until you enable 2FA. Individual countries have adopted laws that require certain types of organizations to protect users’ accounts with 2FA.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | Olga Svistunova |Alanna Titterington |Stan Kaminsky
Two-factor authentication (2FA) with the use of one-time passwords (OTPs) is now often seen as a cure-all against phishing, social engineering, account theft, and other cyber-maladies. By requesting an OTP at login, the service in question provides an additional protective layer of user verification. The code can be generated in a special app directly on the user’s device, although, sadly, few people bother to install and configure an authenticator app.
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Apr 21, 2024 | 
kaspersky.com | Olga Svistunova |Stan Kaminsky
Making money with cryptocurrency is imagined by many to be a sinecure: one lucky trade and you’re set for life. While theoretically possible, just like winning the lottery, it only happens to an incredibly small number of people. “Getting rich with crypto” is more of a meme than reality. Yet self-proclaimed crypto-millionaires flaunt their Lamborghinis, stacks of cash, and watches the price of an apartment — fueling the dream.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
thetechstreetnow.com | Olga Svistunova
25 minutes ago itvoice.in By Olga Svistunova, Web Content Analyst at KasperskyAccording to the latest Kaspersky spam and phishing report, pages impersonating delivery services in 2022 had the highest percentage of clicks on phishing links blocked by Kaspersky solutions (27.38%). Online stores (15.56%) occupied second place. Payment systems (10.39%) and banks (10.39%) ranked third and fourth, respectively.
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Aug 27, 2023 | 
latam.kaspersky.com | Stan Kaminsky |Olga Svistunova |Leonid Grustniy |Hernan Diazgranados
Cuando tira o vende un ordenador o teléfono antiguo, probablemente recuerde eliminar fotos, mensajes y demás datos personales. Sin embargo, hay otro tipo de datos personales en los que (casi) nadie piensa y que deben borrarse no solo de los teléfonos sino también de los relojes, las impresoras y otros dispositivos inteligentes, incluso su refrigerador.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
securelist.com | Eduardo Ovalle |Francesco Figurelli |Tatyana Machneva |Olga Svistunova
Lockbit is one of the most prevalent ransomware strains. It comes with an affiliate ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) program offering up to 80% of the ransom demand to participants, and includes a bug bounty program for those who detect and report vulnerabilities that allow files to be decrypted without paying the ransom. According to the Lockbit owners, the namesake cybercriminal group, there have been bounty payments of up to 50 thousand dollars.
