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Fake emails to employees
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Home office workers are often the weakest link in the chain of defense. Companies should therefore make their employees aware that cyber criminals are sending fake emails (phishing emails) on behalf of the company. Employees should be lured into traps, as Kaspersky was able to observe. Corona has severely affected the economy in many countries, including Germany; many companies introduced short-time working, laid off employees or adjusted existing regulations on vacation, illness or parental leave. Cyber ​​criminals around the world are taking advantage of this fact and are spreading phishing emails geared towards them, as current Kaspersky investigations of the second quarter show: The Kaspersky experts ...

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Lazarus group is behind encryption trojan
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The backdoor of the multi-platform malware framework MATA was used in VHD ransomware and exposed the APT group Lazarus as the backers of the. During the analysis of two cases of VHD ransomware in attacks in Europe and Asia, Kaspersky researchers were able to assign them to the notorious North Korean APT group Lazarus. Both the development of ransomware and the financially motivated background of it indicate a change in strategy for the group; both are highly unusual for a government-sponsored APT group. In March and April 2020 there were first reports about the so-called VHD ransomware, which is characterized by its self-replication ability and aims to collect money from ...

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BlackRock malware targets banking apps
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A new banking malware is spreading on Android devices right now. It uses the source code of the now inoperable malware Xerxes and an even older variant called LokiBot. With the malware, the hackers target apps that have already been manipulated in other malware campaigns. A new banking malware is spreading on Android devices right now. It uses the source code of the now inoperable malware Xerxes and an even older variant called LokiBot. With the malware, the hackers target apps that have already been manipulated in other malware campaigns. Operating systems are constantly evolving, but that's exactly what ...

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Analysis results of the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal
Analysis

Many requests submitted as links or files to the Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal turn out to be Trojans (25 percent), backdoors (24 percent) and Trojan droppers (23 percent) Almost three quarters (72 percent) of the malicious files analyzed, that were submitted via the free version of Kaspersky Threat Intelligence Portal were Trojans, backdoors or droppers. Analysis of the submitted data also shows that the types of malware that researchers investigate most often do not necessarily match the most widespread ones. The detection of harmful activities is only the starting point for ...

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