- 17 Jul
Virus News
Today, Kaspersky Lab researchers announced the results of a joint-investigation with Seculert, an Advanced Threat Detection company, regarding “Madi,” an active cyber-espionage campaign targeting victims in the Middle East
- 09 Jul
Virus News
Even though today’s computer users are well aware of cyber threats, about 60% of them are happy to skimp on antivirus protection and use a free solution – even if it leaves their personal and financial data vulnerable.
- 03 Jul
Virus News
Kaspersky Lab’s new Safe Money technology – designed to give online payments the ultimate protection – returned a perfect score in independent testing conducted by the experts at Matousec.com
- 02 Jul
Virus News
The IT security solutions market offers a lot of universal and specialized antivirus software for PCs
- 02 Jul
Virus News
Cyberthreats targeting the Mac OS X platform continue to appear in various types of attacks and techniques
- 25 Jun
Virus News
Many dangers can be found lurking in different corners of the Internet, and all too often our children are ill-prepared to face them
- 18 Jun
Virus News
Spam, phishing emails and fake AV are the three threats which Internet users encounter most frequently.
- 13 Jun
Virus News
A flood of media attention means that users are more and more aware of contemporary computer security issues and the ploys which cybercriminals use to infiltrate their devices
- 11 Jun
Virus News
The discovery of the Flame malware in May 2012 revealed the most complex cyber-weapon to date. At the time of its discovery, there was no strong evidence of Flame being developed by the same team that delivered Stuxnet and Duqu. The approach to the development of Flame and Duqu/Stuxnet was different as well, which lead to the conclusion that these projects were created by separate teams. However, the following in-depth research, conducted by Kaspersky Lab’s experts, reveals that these teams in fact cooperated at least once during the early stages of development.Quick FactsKaspersky Lab discovered that a module from the early 2009-version of Stuxnet, known as “Resource 207,” was actually a Flame plugin.This means that when the Stuxnet worm was created in the beginning of 2009, the Flame platform already existed, and that in 2009, the source code of at least one module of Flame was used in Stuxnet.This module was used to spread the infection via USB drives. The code of the USB drive infection mechanism is identical in Flame and Stuxnet.The Flame module in Stuxnet also exploited a vulnerability which was unknown at the time and which enabled escalation of privileges, presumably MS09-025.Subsequently, the Flame plugin module was
- 04 Jun
Virus News
There are many computer threats that can cause headaches for users
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