Kaspersky has launched a dedicated collaboration program to help institutions become better equipped at understanding the latest and most prevalent industrial cybersecurity threats. By joining the program, educational institutions, laboratories, research departments, security operations centers (SOC)
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) experts have uncovered a targeted campaign to distribute Milum—a malicious Trojan that gains remote control of devices in various organizations, including those representing the industrial sector. This operation is still active and has been dubbed WildPressure.
Kaspersky solutions were triggered on almost half of industrial control system (ICS) computers in the energy sector globally in the first six months of 2019. The top three cyberthreats were worms, spyware, and cryptocurrency miners – together, they combined to make almost 14%
Almost two in ten (26.5%) computers used to control smart building automation systems were subject to some kind of malicious attack in the first half of 2019, according to an overview of smart building threats conducted by Kaspersky.
Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected multiple attempts to infect foreign diplomatic entities in Iran with homebrew spyware. The attacks appear to be using an updated Remexi backdoor. Several legitimate tools were also used during the campaign.
Kaspersky Lab experts have helped to identify and patch seven previously unknown vulnerabilities in the ThingsPro Suite – an industrial IoT platform, designed for industrial control systems (ICS) data acquisition and remote analysis.
One and a half years after its epidemic, WannaCry ransomware tops the list of the most widespread cryptor families and the ransomware has attacked 74,621 unique users worldwide. These attacks accounted for 28.72% of all users targeted by cryptors in Q3 2018.
