With borders fully opened since March last year, Southeast Asia (SEA) has resumed travel and tourism after more than two years of lockdown. The digital habits formed during the pandemic, however, remain intact with the region’s internet economy forecasted to reach $330 billion in 2025. The increased adoption and dependence on digital services – online… Continue reading Kaspersky: SEA should brace for election-related cyberespionage, privacy attacks in 2023
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Lazarus employs multi-platform malware framework in series of data espionage and ransomware attacks
Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a series of attacks which use an advanced malware framework, called MATA, to target Windows, Linux and macOS operating systems. In use since spring 2018, the framework is linked to Lazarus – a well-known and prolific North Korean APT group. Malicious toolsets used to target multiple platforms are a rare breed,… Continue reading Lazarus employs multi-platform malware framework in series of data espionage and ransomware attacks
Chinese-speaking cyberespionage group APT10 crawls towards Southeast Asia
Expands spying attempts against organizations in Vietnam and Malaysia After closely monitoring the activities of the infamous cyberespionage group, Kaspersky has detected new infection attempts from APT10 against organizations located in the Southeast Asia region. The global cybersecurity company has monitored new wave of attacks potentially targeting health and medical facilities in Malaysia between October… Continue reading Chinese-speaking cyberespionage group APT10 crawls towards Southeast Asia
Chafer cyberespionage group targets embassies with updated homebrew spyware
Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected multiple attempts to infect foreign diplomatic entities in Iran with homebrew spyware. The attacks appear to be using an updated Remexi backdoor. Several legitimate tools were also used during the campaign. The Remexi backdoor is linked to a suspected Farsi-speaking cyberespionage group known as Chafer, previously associated with the cyber-surveillance… Continue reading Chafer cyberespionage group targets embassies with updated homebrew spyware
Charging Mobile Devices Could Put Data at Risk
Smartphones can be compromised when charged using a standard USB connection connected to a computer, Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered in a proof-of-concept experiment. The researchers are now evaluating what the impact of such an incident might be. Have you ever wondered how safe your smartphone and data are when you connect the device to… Continue reading Charging Mobile Devices Could Put Data at Risk
Danti and Co.: Cyber espionage groups use a single vulnerability to target organizations around the world
Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team has spent the last few months observing a wave of cyberespionage attacks conducted by different groups across the Asia-Pacific (APAC) and Far East regions, all of which share one common feature: in order to infect their victims with malware, the attackers use an exploit for the CVE-2015-2545 vulnerability.… Continue reading Danti and Co.: Cyber espionage groups use a single vulnerability to target organizations around the world
Kaspersky Lab Exposes the Poseidon Group: A Commercial Malware Boutique Operating on Land, Air and Sea
First ever publicly-known Brazilian Portuguese-speaking cyberespionage campaign targeting financial institutions as well as telecommunications, manufacturing, energy and media companies. Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team has announced the discovery of the Poseidon Group, an advanced threat actor active in global cyber-espionage operations since at least 2005. What makes the Poseidon Group stand out is… Continue reading Kaspersky Lab Exposes the Poseidon Group: A Commercial Malware Boutique Operating on Land, Air and Sea
“Darkhotel” cyberespionage group boosts attacks with exploit leaked from Hacking Team
Following the public leak of files belonging to Hacking Team – the company known for selling “legal spyware” to some governments and law enforcement agencies – a number of cyberespionage groups have started using for their own malicious purposes, the tools Hacking Team provided to its customers to carry out attacks. This includes several exploits… Continue reading “Darkhotel” cyberespionage group boosts attacks with exploit leaked from Hacking Team
The Chronicles of Hellsing: a Spy vs Spy Story
Kaspersky Lab has recorded a rare and unusual example of one cybercriminal attacking another. In 2014, Hellsing, a small and technically unremarkable cyberespionage group targeting mostly government and diplomatic organizations in Asia, was subjected to a spear-phishing attack by another threat actor and decided to strike back. Kaspersky Lab believes that this could mark the… Continue reading The Chronicles of Hellsing: a Spy vs Spy Story