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Last year, nearly 30,000 mobile users globally were targeted by stalkerware – secret surveillance software used by domestic-abusers to track victims – according to the latest Kaspersky State of Stalkerware 2022 report.

In its first Sustainability (ESG) report, Kaspersky revealed projects and initiatives implemented to reduce its carbon footprint, narrow the gender gap, and continue to educate the public about the basics of cybersecurity. The report, released in accordance with the GRI and SASB international standards, focuses on the results of the company’s sustainable development for 2021 and the first six months of 2022.

Kaspersky experts have discovered cybercriminals launched more than 7 million attacks on children, exploiting popular games titles in 2022. The Kaspersky’s latest report titled “The dark side of kids’ virtual gaming worlds” reveals the risks for young players in online gaming, and that focused attacks on this age group increased by 57 percent compared to 2021. Phishing pages used by cybercriminals to target young players mostly mimicked global titles including Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite, and Apex Legends games. To reach parents’ devices, cybercriminals purposely create fake game sites evoking children’s interest to follow phishing pages and download malicious files.

A new global survey conducted by Kaspersky “The smart home of almost everything: From the fridge to TV, how we’ll embrace the year of the virtual assistant in 2023”, explores the key digital habits, obstacles and smart home device usage

In 2022, Kaspersky experts discovered nearly 200,000 new mobile banking Trojans, marking a two-fold increase from the previous year's figures. This alarming surge in the number of mobile banking Trojans is also the highest ever reported in the last six years. These and other findings are in Kaspersky’s ‘Mobile Threats in 2022’ report.

Kaspersky’s annual IT Security Economics report revealed the complexity of cybersecurity solutions forced companies to outsource some functions to external InfoSec providers, as the latter have more relevant expertise and can manage the technologies more efficiently than company employees.

Kaspersky has acquired 49% of Ximi Pro, a subsidiary of Ximi Lab that develops Tron, a comprehensive solution for the protection of container infrastructures. This acquisition will allow the company to develop an offering that would provide full-fledged protection within Cloud Workload Protection concept. It would also extend its upcoming XDR solution with the ability to detect and respond to threats in container’s infrastructure.

Kaspersky today announces its participation at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona from February 27 to March 2, 2023. The global cybersecurity company will bring its complete portfolio of leading and most tested* cybersecurity solutions, meeting the ever-evolving needs of business and consumers, as well as its Cyber Immune ecosystem to secure technology of tomorrow.

Kaspersky’s anti-phishing system prevented more than 500 million attempts at accessing fraudulent websites in 2022. This is twice more when compared to 2021 figures. The most commonly used bait for these attacks were delivery services, messengers, and cryptocurrency platforms. These and other findings can be found in Kaspersky’s new Spam and Phishing in 2022 report.

Data leakages of internal systems caused either by cyberattacks (23%) or employees (22%) are the most concerning security issue encountered by SMBs and Enterprises, Kaspersky IT Security Economics survey respondents claim. Heightened concerns over data protection increasingly also turns business leaders’ attention to the transparency policies of their suppliers.