Press Releases
July 10, 2017Employees hide IT security incidents in 40% of businesses around the world – that’s according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, “Human Factor in IT Security: How Employees are Making Businesses Vulnerable from Within”.
June 20, 2017 Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered Ztorg apps on the Google Play Store that appear to show cybercriminals trying different ways to get their malware past security – in this case by installing their malicious code in stages and wrapping a Trojan...
June 19, 2017The total number of malware samples targeting smart devices has reached more than 7,000, with over half of these emerging in 2017, according Kaspersky Lab’s researchers.
June 15, 2017 Attackers behind a recent surge in phishing and payment-interception attacks on industrial companies are also stealing victims’ project and operational plans, as well as diagrams of electrical and information networks, according to a report by...
June 8, 2017Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered an unusual new Trojan being distributed through the Google Play Store.
June 7, 2017 Although the majority of industrial organizations believe they are well-prepared for cybersecurity incidents, this confidence may be not well-founded: every second ICS company experienced between one and five incidents last year, according to a...
June 5, 2017 Kaspersky Lab researchers have examined publicly available hardware and software tools for covert password interception and discovered that a powerful hacking tool can be created for as little as $20, and just a few hours of work by someone with...
May 25, 2017 Kaspersky Lab has compiled a report on the history and evolution of the Dridex banking Trojan – a six-year-old threat that has caused millions of dollars’ worth of damage, and which continues to adapt and attack successfully despite many attempts to...
May 22, 2017The global nightmare of ransomware shows no sign of slowing down, with the volume of mobile ransomware rising over three-fold (3.5 times) during the first few months of the year, according to Kaspersky Lab’s Malware Report for Q1, 2017.
May 15, 2017On Friday 12th May, organizations across the world were hit by a massive ransomware attack, named WannaCry, which exploited a (now patched) Microsoft Windows vulnerability revealed in the Shadowbrokers dump on April 14.
May 2, 2017Amid a sharp drop in the number of malicious mass mailings, spam actors are learning new ways to bypass spam filters to succeed in their attacks.
April 25, 2017Kaspersky Lab has announced renewed Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform, a solution to detect advanced threats and targeted attacks for enterprises.
April 25, 2017Kaspersky Lab has published the results of its investigation into the activity of Hajime – a mysterious evolving Internet of Things (IoT) malware that builds a huge peer-to-peer botnet.
April 24, 2017The Kaspersky Lab Global and Analysis Team has analyzed a new version of a previously known Xpan ransomware, and has discovered a decryption method to help victims unlock their files.
April 20, 2017In 2016 there were 702 million attempts to launch an exploit – malware that uses bugs in software to infect devices with additional malicious code like banking Trojans or ransomware.
April 13, 2017The Index is based on an online survey of Internet users around the world, conducted by Kaspersky Lab twice a year. In the second half of 2016, 17,377 respondents from 28 countries were surveyed.
April 10, 2017 Kaspersky Lab is announcing today that its specialized solution for industrial environments now protects the infrastructure of AGC Glass Germany GmbH, the leading provider of automotive glass for BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Opel and other...
April 5, 2017Kaspersky Lab has published the results of its more-than-year-long investigation into the activity of Lazarus – a notorious hacking group allegedly responsible for the theft of 81 million dollars from the Central Bank of Bangladesh in 2016.
April 4, 2017Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered an emerging and alarming trend: more and more cybercriminals are turning their attention from attacks against private users to targeted ransomware attacks against businesses.
April 4, 2017Nine months after the launch of the No More Ransom (NMR) project, more law enforcement and private partners have joined the initiative, allowing more victims of ransomware to get their files back without paying the criminals.
April 4, 2017Kaspersky Lab experts reconstruct an ATMitch case – and discover a mysterious way to cash out with ATMs