Spam and phishing in 2021
Figures of the year In 2021: 45.56% of e-mails were spam 24.77% of spam was sent from Russia with another 14.12% from Germany Our Mail Anti-Virus blocked 148 173 261 malicious attachments sent in e-mails The...
Tagged: Malicious spam
WIRTE’s campaign in the Middle East ‘living off the land’ since at least 2019
Overview This February, during our hunting efforts for threat actors using VBS/VBA implants, we came across MS Excel droppers that use hidden spreadsheets and VBA macros to drop their first stage implant. The implant...
Spam and phishing in Q3 2021
Quarterly highlights Scamming championship: sports-related fraud This summer and early fall saw some major international sporting events. The delayed Euro 2020 soccer tournament was held in June and July, followed by the equally delayed Tokyo...
Incident response analyst report 2020
Download full report (PDF) The Incident response analyst report provides insights into incident investigation services conducted by Kaspersky in 2020. We deliver a range of services to help organizations when they are in need:...
QakBot technical analysis
Main description QakBot, also known as QBot, QuackBot and Pinkslipbot, is a banking Trojan that has existed for over a decade. It was found in the wild in 2007 and since then it has...
Spam and phishing in Q2 2021
Quarterly highlights The corporate sector In Q2 2021, corporate accounts continued to be one of the most tempting targets for cybercriminals. To add to the credibility of links in emails, scammers imitated mailings from popular...
Malicious spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans
In mid-March 2021, we observed two new spam campaigns. The messages in both cases were written in English and contained ZIP attachments or links to ZIP files. Further research revealed that both campaigns ultimately...
Spam and phishing in Q1 2021
Quarterly highlights Banking phishing: new version of an old scheme In Q1 2021, new banking scams appeared alongside ones that are more traditional. Clients of several Dutch banks faced a phishing attack using QR...
The story of the year: remote work
The coronavirus pandemic has caused sudden, sweeping change around the world. The necessary social distancing measures are having an impact on all of us. One large part of society that has been affected by...
Lookalike domains and how to outfox them
Our colleagues now delved into how cybercriminals attack organizations via compromised email addresses of staff, and how to defend versus these types of assaults working with SPF, DKIM and DMARC technologies. But irrespective of...
Digital Education: The cyberrisks of the online classroom
This past spring, as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, online learning became the new norm as universities and classrooms around the world were forced to close their doors. By April 29, 2020, more than...