- 28 Jun
Press Releases
Kaspersky Lab announces that it has extended its long-standing partnership agreement with D-Link combining D-Link’s NetDefend series of UTM Firewalls with Kaspersky’s most comprehensive, best-in-class endpoint security suite to provide customers with exceptional multi-layered protection.
- 26 Jun
Events Calendar
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions and sponsor of Scuderia Ferrari, congratulates Fernando Alonso on his glorious win at the Formula One Gran Prix of Europe in Valencia
- 26 Jun
Product News
Kaspersky Lab presents a new version of Kaspersky Mobile Security, which provides integrated protection for Android smartphones
- 25 Jun
Virus News
Many dangers can be found lurking in different corners of the Internet, and all too often our children are ill-prepared to face them
- 18 Jun
Virus News
Spam, phishing emails and fake AV are the three threats which Internet users encounter most frequently.
- 15 Jun
Events Calendar
Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions and sponsor of Scuderia Ferrari, presents Kaspersky Internet Driving Academy (KIDA), an exciting new racing car project.
- 14 Jun
Spam News
In the last month of spring we saw a further reduction in the amount of spam found in email traffic: its share was down 3.4 percentage points, and fell to its lowest point since the start of the year – 73.8%. However users face all the risks associated with malware attachments and other fraudsters’ tricks
- 13 Jun
Virus News
A flood of media attention means that users are more and more aware of contemporary computer security issues and the ploys which cybercriminals use to infiltrate their devices
- 11 Jun
Virus News
The discovery of the Flame malware in May 2012 revealed the most complex cyber-weapon to date. At the time of its discovery, there was no strong evidence of Flame being developed by the same team that delivered Stuxnet and Duqu. The approach to the development of Flame and Duqu/Stuxnet was different as well, which lead to the conclusion that these projects were created by separate teams. However, the following in-depth research, conducted by Kaspersky Lab’s experts, reveals that these teams in fact cooperated at least once during the early stages of development.Quick FactsKaspersky Lab discovered that a module from the early 2009-version of Stuxnet, known as “Resource 207,” was actually a Flame plugin.This means that when the Stuxnet worm was created in the beginning of 2009, the Flame platform already existed, and that in 2009, the source code of at least one module of Flame was used in Stuxnet.This module was used to spread the infection via USB drives. The code of the USB drive infection mechanism is identical in Flame and Stuxnet.The Flame module in Stuxnet also exploited a vulnerability which was unknown at the time and which enabled escalation of privileges, presumably MS09-025.Subsequently, the Flame plugin module was
- 04 Jun
Virus News
There are many computer threats that can cause headaches for users