Press Releases
March 13, 2017Top prizes in Talent Lab contest include $10,000, participation at the Security Analyst Summit (SAS) and EF Education First language course
March 9, 2017Financial institutions are under pressure to ramp up security, with trends such as the increased take-up of mobile banking putting banks’ IT infrastructure defenses at growing risk of cyber-attack
March 2, 2017Kaspersky Lab has continued to outperform the competition in its TOP3 metric for Internet security, achieving the top spot for the fourth year in a row in independent testing across the year
February 22, 2017 Almost half of all phishing attacks (fraudulent email messages or copycat websites that appear legitimate) registered in 2016 by Kaspersky Lab’s heuristic detection technologies were aimed at stealing their victim’s money, according to an analysis...
February 22, 2017Kaspersky Lab is the first industrial cybersecurity vendor to partner with the organization through its Kaspersky Industrial CyberSecurity solution.
February 20, 2017According to Kaspersky Lab “Spam and phishing in 2016” report, about 20% of all spam emails in Q4 2016 distributed ransomware Trojans
February 17, 2017Out of 62 new crypto ransomware families discovered by Kaspersky Lab researchers in 2016, at least 47 were developed by Russian-speaking cybercriminals
February 15, 2017Today Kaspersky Lab presented a new version of its freemium solution Kaspersky Password Manager
February 13, 2017KasperskyOS is a specialized operating system designed for embedded systems with strict cybersecurity requirements.
January 12, 2017Social media started life as a way of staying in touch with friends and sharing happy memories. However, the results of the latest study from Kaspersky Lab indicate that social media now leaves many people feeling negative instead.
January 4, 2017Research* from Kaspersky Lab has found that businesses are not ready to protect themselves against DDoS, with four in ten (39 per cent) businesses unclear about the most effective protection strategy to combat this type of attack.
December 28, 2016Newly-discovered Trojan uses unsuspecting Android device users as tools to redirect traffic from WiFi-connected devices to websites controlled by the attackers
December 21, 2016 With Christmas just round the corner and expectant children worldwide hoping for presents from Santa Claus for their good behavior, Kaspersky Lab has revealed which countries’ children are the worst culprits for risky online behavior over the last...
December 20, 2016After releasing decryption tools for two variants of CryptXXX ransomware in April and May 2016, Kaspersky Lab is releasing a new decryptor for files that have been locked with the latest version of the malware
December 19, 2016 Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a modification of the mobile banking Trojan, Faketoken that can encrypt user data. Disguised as various programs and games, including Adobe Flash Player, the modified Trojan can also steal credentials from more...
December 16, 2016Kaspersky Lab has officially released Kaspersky Software Updater – a free application for Windows computers that makes it quick and easy to update software, thereby eliminating potential security holes before cybercriminals exploit them.
December 15, 2016The global fight against ransomware continues to gather pace with more than 30 new partners from both the public and private sector joining the No More Ransom project
December 14, 2016In 2016, the world’s biggest cyberthreats were related to money, information and a desire to disrupt
December 13, 2016Kaspersky Lab welcomes the announcement by the Indian Police (Cyber Crime Investigation Cell, CID, West Bengal) of significant progress in its investigation into a phone scam operation that is estimated to have cost victims millions of dollars
December 13, 2016At the end of October the new cryptocurrency Zcash was launched. It is positioned by its creators as a more secure alternative to Bitcoin
December 9, 2016In 2016 ransomware attacks on business increased three-fold: which represents a change from an attack every 2 minutes in January to one every 40 seconds by October
November 30, 2016 Kaspersky Lab reports that its encryption technologies for businesses have been successfully certified by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as fully compliant with the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2...
November 26, 2016Kaspersky Lab has become the official sponsor of Russian chess grandmaster Sergey Karjakin, currently contending for the title of World Chess Champion.
November 25, 2016Recently, the company encountered yet more evidence of this trend – an attack exploiting vulnerabilities in WordPress, but via an encrypted channel.