Press Releases
26 November 2021 Cryptocurrency is having a moment: the price of bitcoin reached another record high on November 10th, a culmination of an upswing that began after a significant drop in value in early summer. In fact, the value of cryptocurrency has steadily...
25 November 2021 The Kaspersky Employee Wellbeing 2021 report unveils that while organisations regularly face employee data leakage, almost half of them (45%) prefer not to disclose these incidents publicly. At the same time, staff may lack basic cybersecurity...
24 November 2021Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, fresh research data into stalkerware and tech abuse suggests that the UK has the second-highest level of cyber stalking in Europe
23 November 2021 In 2022, we will observe state-sponsored groups targeting the cryptocurrency industry, while cybercriminals will take advantage of investors by fabricating rogue wallet with backdoors included. On top of that, we are likely to witness the growth of...
22 November 2021 The growth of phishing attacks mimicking e-payment pages was spotted in the run-up to the Black Friday period. The total number of financial phishing attacks disguised as e-payment systems more than doubled from September (627,560) to October 2021...
9 November 2021 The Kaspersky CyberTrace solution has been updated to include extended threat intelligence platform capabilities including alert triage, threat data analysis and incident investigation. The new paid edition integrates with all commonly used security...
8 November 2021 When compared to Q3 2020, the total number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks increased by nearly 24%, while the total number of smart attacks (advanced DDoS attacks that are often targeted) increased by 31% when compared to the same...
29 October 2021 Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company and leader in endpoint protection, has acquired emerging company, Brain4Net. The organisation has been developing solutions and services to help enterprises and service providers adapt modern technologies,...
28 October 2021 According to a recent Kaspersky survey of 4,303 IT workers, 56% of employees have reported an increased workload since switching to remote working, with 19% describing the increase as significant. 40% did not notice a change in volume, and only 9%...
26 October 2021 Advanced persistent threat (APT) actors continuously advance their ways of working. While some choose to remain consistent in their strategy, others adopt new techniques, tactics and procedures. In Q3, Kaspersky’s researchers witnessed Lazarus, a...
25 October 2021 Kaspersky, with the support of the DiploFoundation (a non-profit educational foundation), has developed an online simulation game to help diplomats and other cyber-professionals without a technical background understanding what’s happening during a...
21 October 2021 The majority (93%) of managed service providers (MSPs) are currently planning to add new services to their cybersecurity portfolio, with threat intelligence being the top choice (46%). These are the findings of a new Kaspersky report ‘MSP market...
20 October 2021 For almost ten years, the Kaspersky Computer Incident Investigation Department researched various cybersecurity incidents, most of which are related to the activity of Russian-speaking cybercriminals. In recent years, Kaspersky security experts have...
19 October 2021 Discovered in 2016, Trickbot’s main functionality was online banking data theft. Over its five years of activity, Trickbot banking Trojan has changed as attackers came up with a more advanced toolset. Kaspersky researchers have traced Trickbot’s...
15 October 2021 By providing a list of software components, known as the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), global cybersecurity company Kaspersky is enhancing the ways in which it ensures the integrity of its products, and helps customers and partners understand...
12 October 2021 In late summer 2021, Kaspersky’s automated detection technologies prevented a series of attacks using an elevation of privilege exploit on multiple Microsoft Windows servers. Upon closer analysis into the attack, Kaspersky researchers discovered a...
12 October 2021 Kaspersky has updated the products within its solution for industrial organisations. Kaspersky Security Center now provides a centralised management dashboard for security orchestration of the entire OT (operational technology) infrastructure, with...
7 October 2021 With digitisation introducing a new degree of complexity across business functions and platforms, Kaspersky’s Ask the Analyst service will allow businesses to reach out to the company’s researchers for their opinions and guidance on cyberthreats and...
7 October 2021 The latest edition of Kaspersky’s annual IT Security Economics report reveals the growing severity of cybersecurity incidents affecting businesses through suppliers that they share data with. The average financial impact of such an event for an...
6 October 2021 On October 6, Instagram celebrates its 11th anniversary. During this time, the company managed to transform from a small photo-sharing service into one of the most popular social networks around the world. According to eMarketer data, Instagram has...
5 October 2021 Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud demonstrated 100% efficiency against ransomware attacks, according to a recent assessment by AV-TEST. As a result of three different scenarios and 113 attack samples, the product didn’t lose a single user file and...
29 September 2021 While investigating a yet unknown advanced persistence threat (APT), Kaspersky researchers came across new malware that contained several important attributes that potentially connect it to DarkHalo – the threat actor behind the Sunburst attack. It...
28 September 2021 Kaspersky researchers presented a comprehensive investigation into all the recent updates introduced into FinSpy spyware for Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and its installers. The research, which took eight months to complete, uncovers four-layer...
27 September 2021 Kaspersky researchers have discovered an advanced Trojan, dubbed the BloodyStealer, sold on darknet forums and used to steal gamers’ accounts on popular gaming platforms such as Steam, Epic Games Store, and EA Origin. With features to avoid analysis...