Feb 28 2013

Mobile Malware Evolution: Part 6

The fifth part of our regular overview of mobile malware evolution was published one year ago, and now it’s time to review the events of 2012 to see just how accurate our forecasts were

Jan 17 2013

“Red October”. Detailed Malware Description 1. First Stage of Attack

Based on the analysis of known cases, we identified two main ways through which Backdoor.Win32.Sputnik infects the victims

Jan 17 2013

“Red October”. Detailed Malware Description 2. Second Stage of Attack

Most of the tasks are provided as one-time PE DLL libraries that are received from the server, executed in memory and then immediately discarded

Jan 17 2013

“Red October”. Detailed Malware Description 3. Second Stage of Attack

The packer disrupts basic software breakpoints and some api hooking techniques, because it decrypts the original exe’s section contents onto heaps in-memory

Jan 17 2013

“Red October”. Detailed Malware Description 4. Second Stage of Attack

Files with the extension ".bak" are treated differently. They are decrypted using a custom AMPRNG algorithm with a hardcoded key, then decompressed using LZMA

Jan 17 2013

“Red October”. Detailed Malware Description 5. Second Stage of Attack

In the Device notification callback function, the module logs each connection and disconnection event. When a device is connected, it starts a new thread that manipulates this device

Jan 14 2013

"Red October" Diplomatic Cyber Attacks Investigation

In October 2012, Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research & Analysis Team initiated a new threat research after a series of attacks against computer networks of various international diplomatic service agencies

Dec 18 2012

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2012. Cyber Weapons

Before 2012, there were only two instances of cyber weapons being used – Stuxnet and Duqu. However, analysis of these two forced the IT community to dramatically expand the whole concept of what cyber warfare entails

Dec 10 2012

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2012. The overall statistics for 2012

This section of the report forms part of the Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2012 and is based on data obtained and processed using Kaspersky Security Network (KSN).

Dec 05 2012

Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2012. Malware Evolution

This is Kaspersky Lab’s annual threat analysis report covering the major issues faced by corporate and individual users alike as a result of malware, potentially harmful programs, crimeware, spam, phishing and other different types of hacker activity

Feb 28 2012

Mobile Malware Evolution, Part 5

In 2011, mobile malware reached a new qualitative level.

Oct 06 2011

ZeuS-in-the-Mobile – Facts and Theories

Online banking is now a run-of-the-mill affair for most.