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Spyware campaigns: 2.000 industrial companies attacked
Spyware campaigns: 2.000 industrial companies attacked

Kaspersky experts have discovered a new, rapidly evolving series of spyware campaigns targeting over 2.000 industrial companies worldwide, stating: short-lived attack scenarios are increasing, data is being offered for sale on marketplaces, an estimated 7.000 compromised or stolen corporate accounts. Unlike many traditional spyware attacks, these attacks have a limited number of targets and a very short lifespan for each malicious program. The captured data was offered for sale on more than 25 marketplaces. Company data on 25 marketplaces for sale In the first half of 2021, the experts of the…

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Spy tools & stalkerware on Android
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More and more dubious apps are offering their services for espionage or stalking in order to secretly monitor ignorant people, acquaintances or (ex) partners. With a good security app for Android, you can also expose these perfidious attackers, such as Pegasus. The market for Android apps, which can be used to secretly monitor, track and spy on devices, is growing steadily. The demand for so-called spying stalker apps is high, as they can be used to monitor Android devices such as smartphones or tablets. The perfidious thing about it: once installed, the monitoring software hides on the device or sometimes disguises itself as a harmless service or game app….

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iOS & Android: Pegasus spyware against journalists and members of the opposition
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The Pegasus project, which was researched in Germany by Süddeutsche Zeitung, Zeit and NDR, among others, was published yesterday. According to this, journalists and members of the opposition are spied on worldwide using the Pegasus espionage software. The iOS version of Pegasus was first discovered in 2016, about a year later an Android version was found and presented at Kaspersky’s Security Analyst Summit in 1997. Dmitry Galov, Security Researcher in the Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) at Kaspersky, answers the most important questions about Pegasus below. What is pegasus Pegasus is a modular ...

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Attack on German military and government institutions
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Current cyber espionage campaign: Transparent Tribe targets military and government institutions worldwide. Germany is among the worst affected countries. Since January 2019, Kaspersky has been investigating an ongoing campaign by the APT group Transparent Tribe that is spreading the Remote Access Trojan (RAT) Crimson. The attacks began with malicious Microsoft Office documents being sent to victims using spear phishing emails. Within a year, the researchers were able to identify more than 1.000 targets in almost 30 countries. The analysis of the Crimson Trojan also revealed new, previously unknown components, which suggests that its development process has not yet ...

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Espionage against financial institutions and the military
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Kaspersky experts recently discovered targeted espionage campaigns against financial and military organizations. Using the Kaspersky Threat Attribution Engine, Kaspersky researchers were able to link more than 300 samples of the Bisonal backdoor to a campaign by the cyber espionage group CactusPete. This latest campaign by the APT group focuses on military and financial targets in Eastern Europe. How the backdoor used gets onto the victims' devices is still unclear. CactusPete, also known as Karma Panda or Tonto Teaь, is a cyber espionage group that has been active since at least 2012. Your currently used backdoor ...

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