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Kaspersky Launches Threat Hunting Services Enabling Timely Detection of Adversarial Activity Woburn, MA – March 16, 2021 – Today, Kaspersky announces a brand new service, Kaspersky Threat Hunting, that enables the timely detection of adversarial activities. This new service allows for a more effective response, saving security teams’ resources for threat analysis, investigation and response. Detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks requires specific expertise, while internal trai...

The big SEPE hack is the work of Ryuk: how the cyberattack could have come about, what went wrong and why it is now one of the biggest threats on the internet No appointments, no web, no systems: Public Employment Service professionals already know what its like to ransomware that has forced them to suspend and delay appointments with users, and to attend with paper and pen to many job seekers. The public body itself acknowledged incidents on its Twitter profile. Sources from the Ministry of L...

Dr. Jackson completed his B.S. in civil engineering from the University of Kentucky in 2002 and his Masters (2004) and PhD (2008) at the University of Connecticut. His previous research efforts include conducting research on driver behavior and vehicle dynamics impacts on vehicle emissions. Dr. Jackson is currently the Executive Director of the Connecticut Transportation Institute and the Director of the Connecticut Transportation Safety Research Center (CTSRC) at UConn. The CTSRC assisted in t...

Lars Rensing, at Protokol and David Emm at Kaspersky Don’t get caught up in the game 8th March 2021 Over the last 17 months cyber-criminals are reported to have carried out in the region of 12 billion credential-stuffing attacks against gaming websites. Here PCR talks to gaming security experts, David Emm at Kaspersky and Lars Rensing, at Protokol about why gamers need to have their wits about them. David Emm, Principal Security Researcher, Global Research & Analysis Team (GReAT), at cybers...

Mar 2, 2021 Kaspersky researchers have identified a new, previously unknown, campaign from Lazarus, a highly prolific advanced threat actor active since at least 2009 that has been linked to a number of multifaceted campaigns. Since early 2020, it has been targeting the defense industry with a custom backdoor dubbed ThreatNeedle. The backdoor moves laterally through infected networks gathering sensitive information. Lazarus is one of today’s most prolific threat actors. Active since at least ...

February 28, 2021 Representative image× 58 per cent of the women agreed that gender equality could be improved by remote working A majority of women in the IT sector have seen levels of gender equality improve in their organisations over the past two years, though the equality journey continues, according to a report by Kaspersky. As per the report, 56 per cent of female respondents globally agreed that gender equality has improved in their organisation over the past two years. In the Asia Pac...

Before this most recent campaign, the hackers have been involved in other large-scale cyberespionage campaigns, ransomware campaigns, and even attacks against the cryptocurrency market. These latest attacks signal a change in direction. Researchers said they became aware of this campaign when they were called in to assist with incident response and discovered the organization had fallen victim to the ThreatNeedle backdoor. The initial infection occurs through spear-phishing, in which targets re...

Cobalt Strike is a legitimate penetration tool that ransomware-wielding attackers often use to help hit targets. Ransomware continues to sting numerous organizations, and the problem only seems to be getting worse. So, defenders across every type of targeted organization - including government agencies and private businesses - would do well to have more effective defenses in place. Such defenses would ideally include organizations proactively looking for known ransomware attackers tactics, tech...

Some people will be more comfortable with the J&J vaccine because it is based on a technology with a longer track record or requires only one dreaded shot; others will balk at a vaccine that may be less effective – but they shouldnt, public health experts told USA TODAY. All the COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to prevent serious disease and death. "People should get vaccinated with whatever vaccine they can get of the ones that FDA authorizes," said Dr. Jesse Goodman, professor of medici...

Kaspersky researchers first became aware of this campaign when they were called in to assist with incident response, and they discovered that the organisation had fallen victim to a custom backdoor (a type of malware that allows complete remote control over the device). Dubbed ThreatNeedle, this backdoor moves laterally through infected networks and extracts confidential information. So far, organisations in more than a dozen countries have been affected. Advertisement Initial infection occurs ...