Blogs by Chipin

Our research team has uncovered a new Zero-Day attack for taking full control over major antiviruses and next-generation antiviruses. Instead of hiding and running away from the antivirus, attackers can now directly assault and hijack control over the antivirus.

In these email-dominated days, phishing attempts are a fact of life. More than half of all users who receive these fraudulent messages end up opening such emails — and many even fall for the scam.

Last week, less than a month after the WannaCry ransomware attack infected more than 250,000 computers in 150 countries, security experts announced new revelations about a new attack, which originated in the Ukraine and spread to Russia, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Spain, and the United States, along with nearly 60 other countries.

The WannaCry ransomware has caused a scare the world over within a few days of being determined. The largest ransomware attack but, WannaCry was briefly stopped in its tracks by means of a british researcher by registering an difficult to understand web cope with, even as it inflamed two hundred,000 computer systems global.

Kaspersky has acknowledged that code belonging to the US National Security Agency (NSA) was lifted from a PC for analysis but insists the theft was not intentional.

In October, a report from The Wall Street Journal claimed that in 2015, the Russian firm targeted an employee of the NSA known for working on the intelligence agency’s hacking tools and software.