Security News
Kaspersky has detailed its takedown of a massive so-called watering-hole attack appearing to target certain folks in China, in the top story in The Reg's infosec roundup that looks at issues of the past week beyond our own detailed coverage. "We were not able to witness any live attacks and thus could not determine the operational target. However, this campaign once again demonstrates why online privacy needs to be actively protected," said Kaspersky researcher Ivan Kwiatkowski.
Vulnerabilities discovered in Kaspersky Secure Connection, Trend Micro Maximum Security, and Autodesk Desktop Application could be exploited for DLL preloading, code execution, and privilege...
The issues have been patched or solved but researchers say they represent a worrying step in how attackers can manipulate trusted security systems.
Kaspersky has patched several vulnerabilities affecting the web protection features present in its Anti-Virus, Internet Security, Total Security, Free Anti-Virus, Security Cloud, and Small Office...
BlueKeep isn't the only bug in town, plenty to go round VNC remote desktop software has no shortage of potentially serious memory-corruption vulnerabilities, you'll no doubt be shocked to hear.…
Educational institutions main target during September spike Kasperksy researchers have blamed pesky schoolkids for the big September spike in denial-of-service attacks.…
The number of attacks on IoT devices in 2019 is nine times greater than the number found in the first half of 2018.
Infection manipulates browsers to snoop on TLS comms Kaspersky says it has uncovered a new malware infection that is able to decode encrypted TLS traffic without the need to intercept or manipulate it.…
Remote Access Trojan Is Capable of Cyberespionage and Financial FraudA newly discovered remote access Trojan called Dtrack has been targeting banks in India for well over a year, Kaspersky...
Oh no I didn't, says disgraced ex-Kaspersky guy An accused Russian hacker has claimed Kaspersky's former head of investigations blackmailed him into stealing approximately £150,000 from local banks.…