A researcher at this year’s Security Analyst Summit staged a series of honeypots at his friends’ houses to record IoT traffic, exploit attempts and other statistics.

Hackers are mining Zcash cryptocurrency surreptitiously on PCs infected with cleverly named programs such as system.exe, taskmngr.exe and svchost.exe.

Researchers on Wednesday confirmed that an OS X variant of a recently discovered family of cross-platform backdoors exists. Stefan Ortloff, a researcher with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, identified the family of backdoors called Mokes in January, but it wasn’t until Tuesday that an OS X variant was discovered. Ortloff wrote a technical breakdown of the...

The No More Ransom initiative released decryption keys for yet another strain of ransomware this week; now victims of the mostly Dutch-leaning ransomware called WildFire can get their files back without paying attackers. According to an update from the Dutch National Police on Wednesday, when it took down command and control server responsible for WildFire, it was...

Malware that targets Steam accounts has proliferated the gaming platform and become what researchers are calling a “booming business” for cybercriminals over the last few months. The popular platform, owned by Valve, boasts 140 million users and is so ripe for attacks that according to the company, nearly 77,000 of them are tricked into giving up...

Threatpost editor Mike Mimoso talks with Roberto Martinez and Santiago Pontiroli, researchers with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) about ATM malware, jackpotting, and why it works so well in Latin America. [embedded content]

TENERIFE, Spain–For more than 10 years, attackers have carried out a series of covert attacks on firms worldwide and capitalized on that connection by coercing the companies into a phony business relationship where they can further steal data. Experts with Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team, who today at the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit...

Microsoft Silverlight vulnerabilities certainly don’t have the same hacker cred as bugs in Adobe Flash, for example, but nonetheless, that does not diminish their value, nor does that mean they should be ignored. Microsoft patched a critical flaw in the application framework on Tuesday, and researchers at Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team caution...