TENERFIE, Spain – Sergey Lozhkin knows malware. Medical devices? Admittedly, not so much. That, however, was not an impediment to the Kaspersky Lab researcher in cracking the digital walls of a Moscow hospital and finding a shocking array of open doors on the network and weaknesses in medical devices and applications crucial not only to...

TENERIFE, Spain –The rhetoric around hacking the power grid would have you believe it’s a relatively mundane practice. Policymakers, intelligence agencies and vendors, for example, spread the word gleefully, leaning on scenarios such as state-sponsored hackers shutting off the lights in the dead of winter as a scare tactic to glean budget and influence. One...

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...

TENERIFE, Spain–When it comes to the internet of things, it isn’t Wi-Fi that scares Chris Rouland, it’s the whole wireless spectrum, constantly being updated with new and poorly secured protocols. Since these protocols can be reverse engineered so easily, he stressed the modern-day equivalent of the Melissa worm, but for IoT devices could be imminent. Rouland, the...

TENERIFE, Spain – Intelligence services may be the security industry’s boogeyman right now, but for a long time, IT security has done a good job of following the government’s lead when it comes to developing new approaches and strategies. At the Kaspersky Lab Security Analyst Summit, Inbar Raz of PerimeterX illustrated how security has been in lockstep...

TENERIFE, Spain – Network defenders who rely solely on lists of assets to protect are running a fool’s errand. Instead, it’s crucial to think in graphs to not only visualize threats, but also to understand network edges, and dependencies between assets and accounts in order to be able to capture attacker activities and render them...

TENERIFE, Spain— Many bank robbers long ago dropped the stick-up man persona in favor of a keyboard and a reliable password-stealing Trojan. Banking malware, however, may soon not be good enough for the bad guys. More and more are copycatting the techniques deployed by advanced hackers to steal millions of dollars from banks and other...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the news of the week, including internet-connected teddy bears, the latest on the Going Dark debate, and whether or not there’s a backdoor in Socat. They also preview next week’s Security Analyst Summit in Tenerife, Spain. Download: Threatpost_News_Wrap_February_5_2016.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves