malware

Everyone knows you should have antivirus applications running on your work and personal computers, but far fewer people take seriously the threat of malware attacks to their mobile devices –

The good old days, when the owners of mobile phones and smartphones had little to fear from malicious programs and could keep all their personal info in their devices’ memory,

In a three-month period this year, Kaspersky Lab products detected and prevented nearly 1.5 billion attempts to infect users’ computers. These included attacks on mobile devices and malware targeting Mac

Botnets are large networks of computers that spread malware across the Internet. In order to do that, botnets need to acquire large volumes of IP addresses for their malicious machines.

Android devices are the most prevalent smartphones on the market, and the most maligned. Hackers had a banner year in 2012 targeting the mobile platform with a variety of malware

Hackers spent much of 2012 laying the groundwork for what they have in store for not only big business and strategic government and military targets, but consumers as well in

It used to be that Mac users could rest easy, knowing that the vast majority of computer viruses were written to target Windows users, which makes sense given that the

Travelers abroad beware: Pop-up windows that require you to download a supposed software update in order to get online may instead be installing a malicious program that could harm your

If you own an Android device, your phone could soon be used against you. Research released in late September introduced a new tool that targets Android devices by taking control

Ryan Naraine interviews Kaspersky Lab Chief Technology Officer, Nikolay Grebennikov about malicious threats on mobile devices. Grebennikov talks about the taxonomy of threats and explains Kaspersky lab’s vision for protecting