Tag: Kaspersky

November 21, 2018

There’s nothing more difficult than predicting. So, instead of gazing into a crystal ball, the idea here is to make educated guesses based on what has happened recently and where we see a trend that might be exploited in the […]

September 26, 2018

A former National Security Agency hacker whose leak of extremely top secret online spying materials led to the US government ban on Kaspersky software was sentenced to 66 months in prison Tuesday. Nghia Hoang Pho, 68, a 10-year veteran of […]

September 7, 2018

According to Kaspersky’s “Threat Landscape for Industrial Automation Systems” report for H1 2018, the company detected over 19,400 samples belonging to roughly 2,800 malware families. As expected, most of the attempts to infect industrial systems were part of random attacks […]

August 24, 2018

Mac users have another potential worry on the security front, with the news that Lazarus, a notorious bunch of hackers from North Korea, has adapted its cryptocurrency-stealing malware to target macOS. As spotted by Computerworld, security firm Kaspersky’s researchers uncovered […]

April 20, 2018

Kaspersky Lab this week announced the launch of a new product designed to help companies protect their hybrid cloud environments against both internal and external threats. According to the security firm, the new Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security can be integrated […]

April 6, 2018

Security company Kaspersky has come across several Android apps published on the Google Play Store that come bundled with cryptocurrency miners. The Russian vendor says most of the apps were published in the sports section and offered capabilities like streaming […]

March 12, 2018

The number of mobile malware attacks detected in 2017 has increased to 42.7 million, according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab. The surge in attacks was in contradiction to evolution of detected mobile malicious installation packages, which amounted to […]

March 12, 2018

Besides being known about corruption scandals, South America is a reference to the development of ATM malware spreading globally with Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico leading the way. A research conducted by KASPERSKY has revealed a convergence on attacks against financial […]

February 14, 2018

Jane, the mother of seven-year-old Samantha, was in the next room when she heard a horrible voice coming from the smartphone her daughter was playing with. She came running into the room as the voice continued: “You look afraid, is […]

November 17, 2017

As hard as it is to believe, it’s once again time for our APT Predictions. Looking back at a year like 2017 brings the internal conflict of being a security researcher into full view: on the one hand, each new […]

November 17, 2017

Kaspersky Lab on Thursday shared more details from its investigation into reports claiming that Russian hackers stole data belonging to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) by exploiting the company’s software. The Wall Street Journal reported last month that hackers […]

September 15, 2017

After the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a binding operational directive ordering government departments and agencies to stop using products from Russia-based Kaspersky Lab, the security firm’s CEO has been invited to testify before Congress. Eugene Kaspersky, Kaspersky […]

September 14, 2017

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a binding operational directive on Wednesday ordering government departments and agencies to stop using products from Kaspersky Lab due to concerns regarding the company’s ties to Russian intelligence. The DHS told agencies […]

March 1, 2017

Recently, Kaspersky officially launched their own Operating System, targeted at control systems, network devices and IoT-related operations. The product is the result of 14-years of hard work and, of course, puts cybersecurity in the spotlight. We should see amazing features […]

December 9, 2016

Cyber-security awareness trainings are usually a boring affair, so imagine my colleagues’ surprise when I exited the room in which I participated in a demonstration of the Kaspersky Interactive Protection Simulation (KIPS) game and told them: “You have to try […]

December 8, 2016

Antivirus provider Kaspersky Lab has revealed that around 323,000 new malware files are being identified each day by its product as opposed to 70,000 files per day in 2011. This, it claims, is an increase by 13,000 per day when […]

October 7, 2016

Terror groups, not nation states, are the most likely to unleash devastating cyber weapons, according to Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive and co-founder of security firm Kaspersky Lab. “I am 99.99% sure some nation states have developed top secret cyber weapons,” […]

October 4, 2016

Every day, new versions and variations of ransomware pop up. Malware creators are still sure that ransomware is their ticket to easy street, despite the fact that law enforcement agencies are paying more and more attention to the problem. In […]

August 3, 2016

Kaspersky Lab is ready to pay up to $50,000 in bounty rewards to hackers that find security vulnerabilities in its products, thanks to a new bug bounty program launched today in partnership with HackerOne. During an initial six-month phase which […]

June 9, 2016

In case you didn’t know, cyber-criminals often take advantage of bugs (exploitable flaws in software) to get inside their victims’ PCs. That’s why every Internet user should install patches and security updates for their systems and software as soon as […]