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Android: financial attacks and current security status

With an increasing amount of people using mobile devices for work, security of the data stored therein has become a hot topic. And since people also use mobile devices to access their finances, that makes them a prime target for cybercriminals. Android is the most popular mobile OS in the world right now, and the most targeted. How are users attacked and what is the current security status of Android?

No Monkeys for CozyDuke

Yet another Duke APT is hitting high-profile targets, including the US government office. This time it’s CozyDuke (also known as CozyBear, CozyCar or “Office Monkeys”,  in honour of the video it employs as a decoy).

Things to build SMB security upon

The global workforce is increasingly going mobile: 37% currently, up to 50% by 2020. There are more actively used mobile devices in any more or less developed country than there are adult citizens, so clearly “mobility” is something related to us all.

Deny the Hellsing APT by default

Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a new APT campaign that targets government institutions, mainly in the APAC region. It was named “Hellsing” after the string containing the project directory name found within the attack components’ code.

How phishing affects businesses

Phishing used to be an exotic threat, but that was years ago when malicious worms dominated the arena. Much has changed since then, and today phishing routinely hits hard – especially

What’s so bad about DDoS?

While it would be obvious to say that DDoS attacks are “bad for business”, the threat is often underestimated, overlooked, or neglected. Surveys show less than 40% of companies take

Best tweets of #TheSAS2015

Kaspersky Security Analyst Summit brought forward a lot of things to think about, and in this post we’ll pick a handful (well, actually quite a lot) of twitter highlights from those two days of security-related keynotes and presentations.