Press Releases
November 8, 2011The star of the show in October was undoubtedly the Duqu Trojan
November 6, 2011Kaspersky Lab announces that its security solutions are now detecting the vulnerability that was used for distributing all known versions of the infamous Duqu Trojan.
November 3, 2011Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its quarterly spam report for Q3 2011.
November 3, 2011Kaspersky Lab announces that the results of the first independent feature and manageability evaluation of corporate IT endpoint security solutions have been published
October 31, 2011Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has been granted a new patent in the USA
October 27, 2011Experts at Kaspersky Lab are continuing their ongoing investigation into the new malicious program Duqu, which shares some characteristics with the infamous Stuxnet worm that targeted industrial installations in Iran
October 26, 2011The second half of 2011 has been an active one for cyber criminals, who have been increasingly looking for chances to set up new scams in the mobile device environment
October 25, 2011Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has been placed 90th in this year’s Sunday Times Top Track 250, an increase of 50 places from last year’s listing
October 25, 2011 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that the Kaspersky One Transantarctic Expedition will commence on November 12, which will see famous polar explorer Felicity Aston making a 70-day,...
October 22, 2011The spread across the Internet of several versions of the malicious program Duqu has become a main news item in the IT Security industry
October 18, 2011The current situation - increasing threats globally and across South Africa
October 18, 2011Kaspersky Lab presents its spam report for September 2011. The volume of spam in mail traffic decreased slightly compared to August and averaged 78.5%
October 14, 2011Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows managed by Kaspersky Security Center combines anti-malware expertise with a broad feature set, protects companies from emerging threats, and improves IT productivity
October 14, 2011On 5-7 October, the 21st Virus Bulletin Conference was held, this year in Barcelona
October 13, 2011 The idea of infecting BIOS has long been a highly intriguing prospect for cybercriminals: by launching from BIOS immediately after the computer is turned on, a malicious program can gain control of all the boot-up stages of the computer or operating...
October 12, 2011On the eve of the release of its new corporate security solution, Kaspersky Lab presents the results of its survey "Cyber Threats and Corporate IT Security: GCC and Global Trends"
October 11, 2011Kaspersky Lab, the largest antivirus company in Europe, presents its spam report for the GCC in the third quarter of 2011. The results show that Saudi Arabia is a local leader as a source of spam
October 11, 2011 Saudi Arabia tops the list of countries in the Gulf region (GCC) in terms of the number of infected PCs. This was the conclusion reached by Kaspersky Lab experts after analyzing data on malicious activity in the region during the third quarter of...
October 7, 2011 Kaspersky Endpoint Security 8 for Windows, Kaspersky Lab’s recently unveiled corporate security solution, has received the highest marks in its first independent testing, conducted by leading IT security institute AV-Test.org, one of the most...
October 6, 2011Mobile transaction authorization numbers (mTAN) used to be one of the most reliable online banking protection mechanisms
October 5, 2011 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that its product Kaspersky Anti-Virus 2012 has been awarded the “Advanced+” grade – the highest possible – in On-Demand testing for malicious software...
September 30, 2011 In their ongoing assault against botnet operators and the hosting companies that allow anonymous domain registrations which facilitate them, Kaspersky Lab, Microsoft and Kyrus Tech have successfully worked together to take out the Kelihos botnet,...
September 29, 2011 Kaspersky Lab, one of the leading developers of secure content and threat management solutions, announces that it has been granted a new anti-spam patent in the USA – No. 8023697 – which covers a system and method for identifying spam in rasterized...
September 28, 2011Hundreds of thousands of machines are joining botnets every month. Most of these botnets are used to propagate spam or distribute malware that can be used in cyber espionage