threats

How many research centers do you need to fight for a safer cyber world? We used to have three labs based in Moscow, Beijing, and Seattle. Now, we’re excited to announce the opening of a fourth lab — our new European Research Center based in London.

Over the last few years we have witnessed a number of high-profile, large scale security breaches with quite dramatic consequences, such as massive leaks of personally identifiable data.

Phishing used to be an exotic threat, but that was years ago when malicious worms dominated the arena. Much has changed since then, and today phishing routinely hits hard – especially

Hardware is usually considered relatively safe and clean — as opposed to software which is usually the layer suffering from bugs and malware. But this is no longer true

In 2014 Kaspersky Lab products took part in many tests held by independent research labs. Our solutions achieved more first places than any competitor!

Gaming is enormously popular. Thus, it’s an easy target for cybercriminals looking for a never-ending source of money.

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

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.

We tend to think that protecting ourselves against future threats is most important. But, perhaps we need to take a step back and solve some of the major problems that we already know about.

There are some good reasons to spend years researching high-profile cyberthreats. But we do our best to protect our customers from the latest threats even before the investigation has concluded. Here’s how.

Will mankind become overrun by technological and information threats while future humans’ raison d’etre would be to keep the machines going “Metropolis” or “Matrix” style? We don’t know. The future remains a product of our imagination until it comes true, while our reality is the consequence of actions.

1 in 8 people don’t believe that cyberthreats are real. The threat may go away if you turn your back to it in a dream, but that won’t work in reality.

Apple malware targets iOS by infecting OS X machines and then swapping legitimate apps for malicious ones as soon as an iOS device connects via USB.

A critical civilian system goes down – it’s a scenario that evokes some apocalyptic pictures of destruction and mayhem; remember, for instance, “Die Hard 4.0”? Actually this could happen with any corporate infrastructure, since all of them have certain critical systems of their own.

Can a business be “partially” prepared to ward off cyberthreats? That’s up for debate, but it seems there is little difference between “partial protection” and no protection at all.

Kaspersky Lab’s recent survey surprisingly found that e-commerce, online retailers and financial service providers are not just the biggest sources of stolen financial data, but also feel just a bit too lax about security. However, this has some severe implications.

Brian Donohue and Chris Brook recap the month’s security headlines from its beginnings at Black Hat and DEFCON, to a bizarre PlayStation Network outage.

Kaspersky Lab released results of a 10-months long analysis of Epic Turla APT campaign, which is still active. One of the most sophisticated cyber-espionage campaigns, it attacked victims in 45 countries.

Kaspersky Lab has just released a new report on the evolution of threats in Q2. Banking Trojans grow in numbers (and the level of danger they pose), while Russia remains the most malware-attacked country.

A visual representation of a problem appears just a bit more meaningful, and at the same time more comprehensible, than large sheets of texts. Here is a big (or not so big) picture of threats to medium-sized businesses.

DoS/DDoS attacks is another popular, but somewhat under explained, term in cybersecurity. Explaining it in detail would take a monograph, so we’ll just hit the high points.