- 15 Apr
Press Releases
Today Kaspersky Lab’s team of experts published a detailed research report that analyses a sustained cyberespionage campaign conducted by the cybercriminal organisation known as “Winnti.”According to Kaspersky Lab’s report, the Winnti group has been attacking companies in the online gaming industry since 2009 and is currently still active. The group’s objectives are stealing digital certificates signed by legitimate software vendors in addition to intellectual property theft, including the source code of online game projects. The first incident that drew attention to the Winnti group’s malicious activities occurred in the autumn of 2011, when a malicious Trojan was detected on a large number of end-user computers across the globe. The clear link between all of the infected computers is that that they were used to play a popular online game. Shortly after the incident, details emerged that the malicious program which had infected the users’ computers was part of a regular update from the gaming company’s official server. Infected users and members of the gaming community suspected the computer game publisher was installing the malware to spy on its customers. However, it later became clear that the malicious program was installed on the players’ computers by accident, and the cybercriminals were actually
- 10 Apr
Comparative Tests
Kaspersky Lab advises users of other vendors’ solutions to run an extra scan on their computers
- 05 Feb
Virus News
Malicious programs targeting online games increasing at a rate of 5,000 new programs a day.
- 14 Jan
Virus News
Attackers Created Unique, Highly-Flexible Malware to Steal Data and Geopolitical Intelligence from Target Victims’ Computer Systems, Mobile Phones and Enterprise Network Equipment
- 07 Jan
Virus News
99 per cent of newly discovered malicious mobile programs target the Android platform, with a very small amount targeting Java- and Symbian-based smartphones, according to the recently published Kaspersky Security Bulletin 2012
- 21 Dec
Virus News
Stuck for gift ideas this Christmas? Research from Kaspersky Lab shows that tablets, smartphones and laptops are on the Christmas lists of many 55 and over’s this year - above books, Christmas jumpers and socks
- 11 Dec
Virus News
Kaspersky Lab now detects 200,000 new malicious programs every day
- 11 Dec
Business News
Encryption is now the fifth most widespread protection technique, but implementation issues are limiting adoption
- 05 Dec
Press Releases
Kaspersky Lab’s experts outlined key security trends of 2012 and presented their views on the core threats of 2013. The most notable predictions for the next year include the continued rise of targeted attacks, cyber-espionage and nation-state cyber-attacks, the evolving role of hacktivism, the development of controversial “legal” surveillance tools and the increase in cybercriminal attacks targeting cloud-based services.
- 02 Nov
Virus News
Analysis of mobile malware for Android OS by Kaspersky Lab experts in Q3 2012 revealed that the most popular targets among cybercriminals were Android versions 2.3.6, or ‘Gingerbread’, and 4.0.4, also known as ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’
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