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Kaspersky Lab has just released its Q2 report on DDoS activities on the Web, showing that this part of the global threat landscape is extremely volatile and permanently evolving.

Cybercriminals know how to benefit from your mobile devices. Be vigilant and follow our recommendations to secure your smartphones and tablets.

Facebook attracts a lot of cyber-criminals. Kaspersky Lab partnered with Facebook to protect you from these cyber-criminals.

Kaspersky Lab has just released its quarterly report on IT threats evolution. It’s full of woeful figures, showing that threats keep climbing. Judging by dynamics, this trend is here to stay for a time.

It looks like the development of BYOD in the commercial sector has outrun the recognition of the risks it poses. It’s worth mentioning, however, that similar risks are posed by any new “invasive species” of tech, and there is nothing unseen with BYOD.

Simda was a rather mysterious botnet that had been used for dissemination of third-party potentially unwanted and malicious software. It has a built-in tools to detect and evade emulation, virtual machines and security tools, effectively allowing the bot to stay out of grid – apparently for years.

With an increasing amount of people using mobile devices for work, security of the data stored therein has become a hot topic. And since people also use mobile devices to access their finances, that makes them a prime target for cybercriminals. Android is the most popular mobile OS in the world right now, and the most targeted. How are users attacked and what is the current security status of Android?

The cybersecurity has become the everyone’s business, and it raises the demand for continuous update of information for everybody, both high-level security professionals and common corporate users. And especially for the latter, since it is them criminals attack most of the time.

Threatpost security reporters Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the Github DDoS, Dyre banking malware, privacy threats, hacking and more

Every security vendor has a portfolio of advanced “anti-malware technologies” that make its products good and even better than all the rest.

As cybercrime keeps focusing on profit, the share of plainly malicious spam, spreading out Trojans, phishing links, etc., will grow.

Cybercriminals go at great lengths to throw researchers off their scent, but just like in the “offline” crime world they make errors and leave peculiar traces behind, making them look a bit silly, while the cyber-forensic experts get happy.

Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered what is possibly should be called “mother of all APTs”: the Equation group has already been compared to Death Star in the APT universe.

WhatsApp has finally released a Web version of its popular mobile messaging service. We take a look at it from the security perspective.

It can be hard for businesses to keep in mind everything they need to do to be protected. We have identified five trends in cybersecurity that are affecting businesses, directly or indirectly, at a formidable level.

2014 is over, as are the holidays. Time to look back at the business security highlights of past the year.

A new malware hits banks and their clients worldwide. Codenamed Chthonic, it is actually an evolved version of notorious Zeus banking Trojan.

A new variant of the Zeus banking trojan has emerged, targeting consumer accounts at 150 banks in 15 countries.

Ransomware is a common and much-feared problem. Here are ten facts to help in dealing with it.

Kaspersky Lab has gathered stats on the cyberthreats in 2014. The figures are appalling, but they don’t spell out doom and gloom. It is all about awareness.

Cybercrime is a rather lucrative business. Cybercriminals are earning a lot, or at least their effort-to-profit rate is good enough for them to keep going. But how good is it?