Researchers looking into the recently uncovered Turla, or Snake, cyber espionage campaign have discovered some similarities connecting it to older pieces of malware such as Agent.btz and Red October.
More than 162,000 “popular and clean” WordPress sites were recently used in a large-scale distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) that exploited the content management system’s pingback feature.
Google has fixed several serious security vulnerabilities in Chrome 33, just ahead of the Pwn2Own hacking competition at CanSecWest this week, which surely will reveal several more new bugs in the browser. The company’s Chrome browser is always at the top of the target list for contestants in Pwn2Own, which rewards them with cash prizes[...]
NTP amplification DDoS attacks are on the rise despite an effort to close off the holes in network time protocol servers that enable such attacks.
Joomla pushed out version 3.2.3 of its product last week, fixing a SQL injection zero day vulnerability that could have let attackers exploit sites running the CMS.
The 2014 Security Analyst Summit was held in the Dominican Republic earlier this month.
Jules Verne, fat adventure novels, In Search of the Castaways, Paganel and Patagonia… Such childhood reminiscences are indelibly etched somewhere in the deeper recesses of my memory. I always conjured...
The past few days has seen an extensive discussion within the IT security industry about a cyberespionage campaign called Turla, aka Snake and Uroburos, which, according to G-DATA experts, may have be...
We all know that it is wiser to do things beforehand than to deal with the results of our carelessness. However, often we face situations when it is too late to take precautionary measures. People oft...
Kaspersky Lab recently published a new survey called “Who’s spying on you” to describe the arising problem of cyber-espionage. In our previous article we pointed out that any company...
We continue series of interviews with Kaspersky Lab experts enquiring their opinion regarding cyber-security industry and related threats. Here, Vutaly Kamluk, Principal Security Researcher, Global R...
