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Kaspersky Lab released its new IT Threat Evolution Q3 2014 report, dedicated to the most important security incidents and trends in the cybersecurity sphere. It may seem like attacks are increasing more rapidly than ever, but it’s detection rates that are growing.

Every fifth Android-based device protected by Kaspersky Lab security solutions was attacked by malware at least once in 2013-2014. In 60% of the registered attacks the malware used had a “financial” nature. While there’s seemingly nothing unexpected a certain twist is present…

The recent developments with “big bugs” such as Heartbleed and Shellshock created a global security strain, with many questions emerging. Both bugs were open-source software-related, but indirectly they would constitute a threat to Windows-based infrastructure. In this post we review a few scenarios of an attack on mostly Windows-based network with Linux servers at certain points.

APT is a term often mentioned in cybersecurity bulletins. Here’s what you need to know to understand it.

Elena Kharchenko, Head of Consumer Product Management, answers the important security questions that you submitted.

This post is comprised of two topics: a Trojan Opfake.a, which made a lot of buzz earlier this months and analyzing mobile malware at home. The latter is quite possible, but requires protective measures.

It’s been years since we’ve last heard of any large worm epidemics. Does it really mean that malware epidemics have gone away for good?

The biggest concern about Apple Pay is that one’s iCloud account now controls not only private photos, app data, and messages, but also money. You lose your password – you lose everything and as the celebrity hack showed us, there is no need to hack Apple’s servers. Social engineering, phishing, trojans – all cybercriminal tools will now be targeted at people’s electronic wallets.

Malvertising is an ambiguous term referring to malicious online advertisements; some cause malware infection while others track user behavior.

Your data is the finest treasure on your computer. Protect it the way the secret service protects a president, create a robust defense system where an antivirus will be just the last line of defense.

Can we beat software vulnerabilities? It is not possible to do so completely, but there are ways to mend the issue.

We have bought our very own Blackphone to check its security firsthand.

Malware using Tor for communication with C&C servers is a novelty; it may not make the malware itself more dangerous, but eradicating it becomes a much more serious problem.

Read highlights from our top posts in July.

Security researchers uncovered yet another long-standing APT campaign aimed at exfiltration of important data from the organizations associated with strategic industrial sectors. Once again, businesses involved in these areas are

The same code base of Windows for various devices means also that the same malware can hypothetically attack all of them.

Spam levels have dropped globally and it’s not a seasonal fluctuation. There is indeed less spam now in e-mail traffic. Can spam ever be beaten altogether?

A new version of file-encrypting malware hides its sever inside an anonymous TOR network, making it safer for criminals to extort money from victims.

Igor Soumenkov, a Kaspersky Lab contributor to the Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs script assessment, explains how close to real life the game world is.

“Trojan” in computing is a misleading shortening from the self-descriptive “Trojan horse”, the ubiquitous and probably the most dangerous sort of malware.

Backdoor is a very graphic term, but does it explain the tech behind it? We try to shed some light.