According to the Kaspersky Lab Spam and Phishing in Q3 report, the company’s products blocked 73,066,751 attempts to attack users with malicious attachments. This is the largest amount of malicious spam since the beginning of 2014 and is a 37% increase compared to the previous quarter. The majority of those attachments were ransomware trojan downloaders.… Continue reading The Volume of Malicious Spam in Q3 2016 Hits Two-Year High
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Non-Stop: The Number of Users Attacked with Encrypting Ransomware Grew 2.6 Times in Q3 2016
The number of Internet users that encountered encrypting ransomware more than doubled in Q3 2016, reaching 821 865 people, according to the Kaspersky Lab quarterly IT threat evolution report. The number of people attacked has now risen for the third quarter in the row. Encrypting ransomware – malware that encrypts a victim’s files and demands a… Continue reading Non-Stop: The Number of Users Attacked with Encrypting Ransomware Grew 2.6 Times in Q3 2016
Biometric skimmers are here: Kaspersky Lab Examine Near-Future Threats to ATMs
Kaspersky Lab experts have investigated how cybercriminals could exploit new ATM authentication technologies planned by banks. While many financial organizations consider biometric-based solutions to be one of the most promising additions to current authentication methods, if not a complete replacement for them, cybercriminals see biometrics as a new opportunity to steal sensitive information. ATMs have… Continue reading Biometric skimmers are here: Kaspersky Lab Examine Near-Future Threats to ATMs
Kaspersky Lab experts discover why it’s so easy to make an ATM obey hacker commands
Almost any ATM in the world could be illegally accessed and jackpotted with or without the help of malware. According to research conducted by Kaspersky Lab experts, this is because of the widespread use of outdated and insecure software, mistakes in network configuration and a lack of physical security for critical parts of the ATM.… Continue reading Kaspersky Lab experts discover why it’s so easy to make an ATM obey hacker commands