Press Releases
26 June 2026 Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has conducted a major review of the GitHub Actions workflows within top-starred repositories. Leveraging newly introduced Kaspersky Container Security capability, the researchers have discovered...
25 June 2026 From January to April 2026, Kaspersky security solutions* detected more than 33,300 attacks on small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), in which malicious or unwanted software for PCs were disguised as popular artificial intelligence (AI) services....
25 June 2026 Kaspersky GReAT has today announced the discovery of a new sophisticated malicious campaign – StrikeShark. The attackers targeted multiple organizations worldwide, including diplomatic entities in Indonesia, government agencies in Taiwan, software...
22 June 2026 Targeting WhatsApp Desktop and WhatsApp Web users, the crimeware campaign distributes malicious VBScript files via direct messages on the platform. Victims have been identified across multiple countries and territories, including Malaysia, Brazil,...
19 June 2026 New Kaspersky research* shows that nearly 90% of users occasionally clean up their devices, deleting old photos or clearing browser history. However, not all of them adopt practices that are truly beneficial for the device’s security. Kaspersky...
18 June 2026 Kaspersky Labs GmbH has registered under the EU’s NIS 2 Directive, in accordance with the German law for the implementation of this directive, as a “very important entity” (essential entity). The registration in Germany with the Federal Office for...
16 June 2026Attackers abuse Steam Workshop to distribute malware disguised as desktop wallpapers, leading to infections and account theft.
15 June 2026New global research by Kaspersky quantifies the true scale of the emerging messaging app scam epidemic, revealing a threat governments and regulators are yet to deal with
11 June 2026 The second part of Kaspersky's global report on tech-enabled abuse reveals that the consequences of digital harm reach well beyond the screen. 34% of respondents reported real-life consequences - from withdrawing socially to leaving a job or...
9 June 2026 According to a new Kaspersky ICS CERT report, in Q1 2026 the percentage of industrial control systems (ICS) on which malicious objects were blocked reached 19.6% globally. Kaspersky security solutions blocked malware from 10,052 different malware...
3 June 2026 Kaspersky GReAT researchers have uncovered a new Remote Access Trojan (RAT) targeting hundreds of users of adult games. The malware, dubbed Argamal, has already been detected in Russia, Brazil, Germany, Vietnam and in a multitude of other countries....
1 June 2026New research exposes the global scam cartel exploiting everyday messages to steal people’s hard-earned cash and personal data
26 May 2026 Kaspersky has launched the second part of its report on tech-enabled abuse based on a global study* of 7,600 respondents around the world. The study reveals that nearly 50% of victims of tech-enabled abuse reported that the perpetrator was someone...
21 May 2026 A live demo at Kaspersky’s flagship European conference, Kaspersky HORIZONS, shows facial recognition systems can identify individuals even after generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools dramatically modify facial appearance through aging...
20 May 2026 Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being developed to analyze neural signals, model behavior, and anticipate decision-making patterns. This is marking a paradigm shift from simple data processing to systems that can interpret and interact...
19 May 2026 From January to the beginning of May 2026, Kaspersky solutions detected more than 92,000 attacks of malware and potentially unwanted applications worldwide disguised as popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) agents and AI services. Cybercriminals...
19 May 2026 Kaspersky has launched a report on tech-enabled abuse based on its global study*, which reveals that 45.7% of respondents experienced at least one form of tech-enabled abuse in the past 12 months — yet only 32% of people correctly understand what...
5 May 2026 Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) discovered an active supply chain attack targeting the official website of Daemon Tools, a widely used virtual drive emulation software. The compromised installer delivers malicious software...
1 May 2026According to Kaspersky telemetry, almost 19,500 malicious packages were found in open-source projects by the end of 2025, representing a 37% increase compared to the end of 2024.
23 April 2026 Kaspersky ICS CERT discovered a hardware-level vulnerability affecting Qualcomm chipsets that are widely used in a range of consumer and industrial devices, including smartphones and tablets, car components, IoT devices and more. The vulnerability...
20 April 2026 Kaspersky Threat Research identified multiple fraudulent applications mimicking legitimate crypto wallets on the Apple App Store. Once opened, the apps redirect users to phishing pages which impersonate the App Store and deliver trojanized wallet...
13 April 2026 Kaspersky GReAT researchers detected and analyzed a new version of JanelaRAT, which masqueraded as a legitimate pixel art application. Consistent with previous intrusions and campaigns, the primary targets of the threat actors distributing JanelaRAT...
8 April 2026 More than one million online banking accounts were compromised by infostealers last year, as financial cyberthreats shifted toward credential theft and data reuse. Attackers are moving away from traditional PC banking malware and increasingly...
2 April 2026 Kaspersky Threat Research has identified a new variant of the SparkCat Trojan in the App Store and in Google Play — a year after the crypto-stealing malware was first discovered and removed from both platforms. The Trojan hides inside...