Threats

Our today’s weekly news digest covers three stories about the mistakes coders make when programming robots, the way other people exploit those design flaws, and then the reckoning.

Kaspersky Lab joined hands with the Dutch police to arrest the criminals behind the CoinVault dangerous ransomware.

A virus damaging hardware is one of the most widely believed myths in the infosec domain. And, at the same time, it’s the most non-standard one. And it’s not totally a myth, after all.

In the new installment of our explosive hit series “Infosec news” you’ll find: the breach of Bugzilla, Carbanak is coming back and Turla uses Level-God hard to track techniques to hide servers.

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have found that Russian-speaking Turla APT group is exploiting satellites to mask its operation ant to hide command-and-control servers.

Information security digest: the greatest iOS theft, farewell to RC4 cipher, multiple vulnerabilities in routers

Headlines raise alarm: the greatest hack in history finally reached iOS. Is that really so and who are the potential victims?

In-flight security made quite a lot of headlines this summer, but this time at unusual angle: the one quite surprising for an average passenger and quite expected for an IT specialist.

One can find a number of reasons why this very bug cannot be patched right now, or this quarter, or, like, ever. Yet, the problem has to be solved.

Three most important recent news with extensive commentary and trolling: nasty Android Stagefright vulnerability, new car hacks and Do Not Track 2.0 privacy initiative

Predictability of human beings can barely be overestimated when it comes to passwords. But what about lock screen patterns, are we predictable as well when we’re creating them?

Recently we wrote about the Jeep Cherokee hack incident. At Black Hat security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek finally explained, how exactly the now-famous Jeep hack happened.

The number of vulnerable Google devices reached an all-time high since worst Android flaws ever are uncovered. There are already patches available but they may never reach end users.

Security experts often mention exploits as one of the most serious problems, although it’s not always clear why exploits are so special and scary. We’ll try to explain here.

Andrey Pozhogin, cybersecurity expert at Kaspersky Lab, provides his expertise on the growing trend of ransomware attacks and what users and companies can do to protect themselves.

The TeslaCrypt ransomware family is notable for targeting games-related files, as well as the usual documents. In the new version, it became even more dangerous.

Kaspersky Lab experts detected a sly scheme that allows fraudsters to steal personal data without your login and password.

Ransomware is a huge problem nowadays, with new examples circulating on a regular basis. Learn how to protect yourself.

A new, Chinese-language APT has emerged, seeking geopolitical information and targeting nations in and around the South China Sea

Yet another APT of the ‘Dukes family’ is hitting high-profile targets, including the US government office.

Kaspersky Lab and the Dutch cyber-police created a tool that restores files encrypted by CoinVault ransomware.