Kaspersky GReAT (Global Research and Analysis Team) experts have discovered open-source packages that download the Quasar backdoor and a stealer designed to exfiltrate cryptocurrency. The malicious packages are intended for the Cursor development environment, which is based on Visual Studio Code — a tool used for AI-assisted coding. The malicious open-source packages are extensions hosted…
Kaspersky, a global leader in cybersecurity and data privacy, demonstrated strong and consistent performance in the Indian market in 2024, achieving robust growth across both B2B and B2C segments. Overall, Kaspersky recorded a 24% year-over-year increase in total product sales in India for the year. The B2B segment grew by 20%, while the B2C segment…
Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has identified a new cyber campaign led by the Lazarus Group targeting supply chains in South Korea through combined watering hole attacks and exploitation of vulnerabilities in third-party software. The campaign, dubbed “Operation SyncHole,” was observed targeting at least six organisations across the software, IT, financial, semiconductor, and…
Kaspersky has reported that over 57,000 ransomware attacks were detected in Southeast Asia during the first half of 2024, with Indonesia accounting for the highest number of incidents. In addition to Indonesia, where 32,803 incidents were blocked, the Philippines experienced 15,208 ransomware attacks, and Thailand saw 4,841 cases. In Malaysia, 3,920 attacks were recorded, followed…
Hackers add more devices to the network of slave digital devices, which would do what hackers want them to do. These networks, called botnets, launch large-scale cyberattacks, including the dreaded Distributed Denial of Services (DDoS). Now Dark web peers are selling botnets at throw-away prices ranging from $99 on the Dark Web, according to cybersecurity…
Kaspersky has identified ransomware attacks using Microsoft’s BitLocker to attempt encryption of corporate files. The threat actors are using VBScript – a programming language used to automate tasks on Windows computers – to create a malicious script with previously unreported features to maximize the damage of the attack, Kaspersky Global Emergency Response team reports. The…
Nearly one in four Indians faced hacking attacks in the first quarter (January-March period) this year, as malware continues to be a major cyber threat, a report showed on Friday. In the quarterly data released by global security company Kaspersky, 22.9% of web users in the country were attacked by web-borne threats. About 20.1 percent…
