Nation state cyber warfare

Gauss is the most recent cyber-surveillance operation in the Stuxnet, Duqu and Flame saga. It was probably created in mid-2011 and deployed for the first time in August-September 2011. Gauss was discovered during the course of the ongoing effort initiated by the International Telecommunication Union.

Flashfake Mac OS X botnet

Kaspersky Lab’s experts recently analyzed Flashfake, a massive botnet that infected more than 670,000 computers worldwide, and concluded that more than 98% of the infected computers were running a version of Mac OS X. To infect victims’ computers, the cyber criminals were installing a Flashfake Trojan by exploiting vulnerabilities in Java.

Botnets

Mobile malware

The evolution of malware for various mobile platforms is still in progress. Since their emergence, these threats have passed through several evolutionary stages. At first, we had to deal with primitive worms and numerous PoCs. Today, the overwhelming majority of malware for mobile OSs is created solely for the purpose of making money illegally.