Press Releases
March 27, 2018Over a quarter of businesses that have been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack don’t think they were the intended target, highlighting that businesses can’t afford to be complacent when it comes to today’s threat landscape.
March 15, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have revealed that the group behind the Prilex point-of-sale malware can now turn stolen credit card data into functional plastic cards.
March 10, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have observed that the Russian-speaking threat actor Sofacy, also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear is shifting its targeting to the Far East.
March 10, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a sophisticated threat used for cyber-espionage in the Middle East and Africa from at least 2012 until February 2018.
March 9, 2018A new attribution method helped Kaspersky Lab to identify a very sophisticated false flag.
February 28, 2018In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages.
February 7, 2018 Kaspersky Lab researchers have helped uncover a number of unknown vulnerabilities that have left gas stations around the world exposed to remote takeover, often for years. The vulnerabilities were found in an embedded gas station controller of which...
February 6, 2018 Accidental DDoS attacks by spammers, political sabotage and the owners of DDoS botnets attempting to make money from Bitcoin – these are just some of the trends analyzed in Kaspersky Lab's fourth quarter report for 2017 based on data from Kaspersky...
December 18, 2017 Kaspersky Lab researchers have identified a new intriguing malware with multiple modules, which allows for an almost endless number of malicious features - from crypto currency mining to DDos attacks. Due to its modular architecture, even more...
December 14, 2017The number of new malicious files processed by Kaspersky Lab’s in-lab detection technologies reached 360,000 a day in 2017, which is 11.5% more than the previous year.
December 13, 2017According to the Kaspersky Lab IT Security Economics Report, over 77% of companies have suffered from some kind of attack during the last 12 months.
November 28, 2017In 2017, 26.2% those targeted by ransomware were business users, compared to 22.6% in 2016.
November 27, 2017Choose gifts wisely while shopping this Cyber Monday
November 23, 2017Cyberspace is flooded with commercial spyware tools for the Android OS, available for just a few dollars each.
November 17, 2017The annual Black Friday/Cyber Monday sales offer incredible opportunities, but they are also peak days for financial phishing attacks – and consumers are significantly safer on ‘Grey Saturday.’
November 15, 2017 In the coming year, the world will see more legitimate software being poisoned by groups targeting wider victim profiles and geographies, with the added advantage that such attacks are extremely hard to spot and mitigate, according to Kaspersky...
November 14, 2017The third quarter of 2017 clearly demonstrated that Chinese-speaking actors have not “disappeared” and are still very much active, conducting cyber-espionage campaigns against a wide range of countries and industry verticals.
November 6, 2017Kaspersky Lab has published its DDoS Intelligence report for the third quarter of 2017.
November 3, 2017 While cryptocurrency holders search for new investment opportunities and ways to increase their savings, and enthusiasts look to learn more about the benefits of going cashless, malicious users are also looking for ways to capitalize on the...
November 1, 2017In September 2017 Kaspersky Lab researchers identified a new series of targeted attacks against at least 10 financial organizations in multiple regions including Russia, Armenia, and Malaysia.
October 31, 2017Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new malware which steals cryptocurrencies from a user’s wallet by replacing their address with its own in the device’s clipboard.
October 30, 2017Kaspersky Lab experts are registering important changes in the operations of the infamous Gaza Team Cybergang, which is actively targeting multiple commercial and government organizations in the Middle East and Africa (MENA) region.
October 24, 2017 Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a range of vulnerabilities contained in popular dating apps which have the potential to result in various negative consequences for users: from simply identifying a particular person, to unsecured data...
October 18, 2017 Shifting Internet usage habits, an overreliance on mobile devices and a blasé attitude towards device security have been highlighted as key cybersecurity impact areas in Kaspersky Lab’s latest Kaspersky Cybersecurity Index – an aggregate of...