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Read more: GravityRAT strikes back: infamous spyware cunningly becomes multiplatformThis malicious module was inserted into a travel application for Indian users. A closer look revealed that it was related to GravityRAT, a spying Remote Access Trojan (RAT) known for carrying out activities in India. Further investigation confirmed that the group behind the malware invested effort into making a multiplatform tool. In…
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Read more: 40% of parents in SEA think their kids are “more grumpy” after a gaming sessionWhen a child plays video games, parents inevitably think about how harmful it can be. Will this game affect the child’s behaviour? Will he/she start suffering from nightmares? Will there be ineradicable fears? What if the child is already addicted? In fact, research conducted last May by global cybersecurity company Kaspersky showed that four-in-10…
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Read more: Working-from-home lessons: employees ‘confidently’ make 90% of all security awareness mistakesFree security awareness training on remote working from Kaspersky and Area9 Lyceum has seen participants enact correct responses 66% of the time. However, even when learners were wrong, they mostly remained confident in their competences. The most difficult learning objectives proved to be virtual machines, updates, and reasons why people…
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Read more: Kaspersky launches new program to help universities and laboratories advance their industrial cybersecurity researchKaspersky 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) and emergency response teams (CERT and CSIRT) that meet the partner profile criteria will be able to improve how…
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Read more: Kaspersky: 1.6M more phishing almost infected SEA SMBs in H1 2020Phishing is on the rise with more than 1.6 million attempts to transfer users to phishing pages via links within emails blocked from January to June, showing small and medium businesses need cybersecurity improvements in the context of continued remote working The second quarter of 2020 often saw phishers relaxing…
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Read more: 72% of “always-on” Singaporeans think their digital lifestyles are secure, yet almost half have been hackedGeneration Z leads the way in terms of connectivity and self-perceived security – 84% always have multiple devices connected to the internet, with a similar percentage thinking that their digital lifestyle is safe for their privacy. Singapore leads the world in terms of internet inclusivity, and along with the government doubling down…
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Read more: No summer vacation: DDOS attacks tripled year-on-year in Q2 2020The Kaspersky Q2 2020 DDoS attacks report has revealed that the number of DDoS attacks in the second quarter of 2020 increased three-fold in comparison to Q2 2019. The figure is almost the same as the number of DDoS attacks in Q1 2020. Kaspersky experts believe the rise in malicious activity can…
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Read more: Kaspersky finds zero-day exploits in Windows OS and Internet Explorer used in targeted attackIn late spring 2020, Kaspersky’s automated detection technologies prevented a targeted attack on a South Korean company. Closer analysis revealed that this attack used a previously unknown full chain that consisted of two zero-day exploits: a remote code execution exploit for Internet Explorer 11 and an elevation of privileges (EoP)…
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Read more: Pretending to be normal: attackers misuse legitimate tools in 30% of successful cyber-incidents
Almost a third (30%) of cyberattacks investigated by the Kaspersky Global Emergency Response team in 2019 involved legitimate remote management and administration tools. As a result, attackers can remain undetected for a longer period of time. For instance, continuous cyber-espionage attacks and theft of confidential data had a median duration…
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Read more: Too boring to hack? A third of millennials think they’re too mundane to be the victim of cybercrimeOnline security tops the charts as the most important factor for millennials looking to find their ‘Digital Comfort Zones’ at home, despite the fact that over a third of them (37%) think they’re boring to be the victim of cybercrime, a new study by Kaspersky shows. Kaspersky’s latest global report, More…
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