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Articles by Sergey Yunakovsky
Denis and Co. - Securelist
In April 2017, we published a detailed review of a malicious program that used DNS tunneling to communicate to its C&C. That study prompted us to develop a technology to detect similar threats, which allowed us to collect a multitude of malware samples using DNS tunneling. In this article, we will examine some of the most notable malicious programs that use DNS tunneling.
IoT lottery: finding a perfectly secure connected device
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are great for shopping. Vendors flood the market with all kinds of goods, including lots of exciting connected devices that promise to make our life easier, happier and more comfortable. Being enthusiastic shoppers just like many other people around the world, at Kaspersky Lab we are, however paranoid enough to look at any Internet of Things (IoT)-device with some concern, even when the price is favorable.
Tales from the blockchain
Cryptocurrency has gradually evolved from an element of a new world, utopian economy to a business that has affected even those sectors of society least involved in information technology.
The NukeBot banking Trojan: from rough drafts to real threats
This spring, the author of the NukeBot banking Trojan published the source code of his creation. He most probably did so to restore his reputation on a number of hacker forums: earlier, he had been promoting his development so aggressively and behaving so erratically that he was eventually suspected of being a scammer. Now, three months after the source code was published, we decided to have a look at what has changed in the banking malware landscape.
The Magala Trojan Clicker: A Hidden Advertising Threat
The golden age of Trojans and viruses has long gone. Malicious programs created by enthusiasts for research purposes and for fun are now largely confined to history books and dusty computer incident reports. They have been replaced by programs that put a heavy emphasis on making money. If we ignore targeted attacks prepared by professionals for very specific purposes, what sort of malware do we most often hear about today? Encryption malware and DDoS botnets made up of IoT devices.
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