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31 Mar   Virus News

Law Enforcement Agencies Help Halve Spam in 2010

In order to fight spam successfully, we need more than just anti-spam solutions protecting users’ inboxes — we also need the proactive involvement of law enforcement agencies in catching spammers and shutting down their spambot networks.

29 Mar   Virus News

The Price of Recovery: $125 for the Return of User Data

Experts at Kaspersky Lab have detected a new variant of the now notorious malicious program GPCode

22 Mar   Virus News

Mobile Threats Double in Number

Kaspersky Lab data shows that the number of malicious programs targeting mobile devices has more than doubled between August 2009 and December 2010.

15 Mar   Virus News

Drive-by attacks are back with a vengeance warns Kaspersky Lab

February saw an exponential increase in the volume of drive-by downloads according to Kaspersky Lab, following the release of its Monthly Malware Statistics for February 2011

14 Mar   Virus News

What is the value of your leaked data?

Modern cybercrime has grown and evolved so much that it is now comparable to other organized illegal activities such as drug and weapons trafficking in terms of monies gained and laundered. No matter how worthless users’ personal data or online accounts may seem, they are a potential...

10 Mar   Virus News

Online fraud is the silent assassin of small businesses

Online fraud is costing every British small business £800 each year, new statistics have revealed

03 Mar   Virus News

Malware in February: Cybercriminals Perfect Drive-By Tactics

Kaspersky Lab’s latest monthly report on malware activity highlights the current popularity of using drive-by attacks to infect users’ computers

03 Mar   Virus News

Kaspersky Lab: sensitive corporate information is increasingly at risk from mobile malware

Kaspersky Lab has urged smartphone users to be more vigilant against the growing menace of mobile malware, especially if it threatens to compromise sensitive corporate information. In January 2011, Kaspersky Lab recorded 154 different mobile malware families with 1,046 strains, two per cent...

03 Mar   Virus News

European Users Mobile Behaviour and Awareness of Mobile Threats

Kaspersky Lab Conducts Pan-European Research Regarding Smartphone IT Security

02 Mar   Virus News

Eugene Kaspersky: Mobile Malware Threat is Set to Increase in 2011

Speaking at CeBIT, Kaspersky Lab CEO and co-founder Eugene Kaspersky predicted increased professionalism for the mobile malware cybercrime sphere. Today mobile devices are used increasingly to access the Internet, and sensitive transactions such as online banking are carried out more and...