Press Releases
3 September 2021 The number of users attacked with QakBot – a powerful banking Trojan, in the first seven months of 2021 grew by 65% in comparison to the same period in 2020 and reached 17,316 users worldwide, demonstrating that this threat is increasingly affecting...
25 August 2021 Kaspersky analysed anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Privacy Checker, a website that contains helpful advice on privacy settings for various internet services and platforms. The results reflect which services and platforms’ internet users...
10 October 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers are monitoring the activity of Muddy Water, an advanced threat actor first seen targeting Iraq and Saudi Arabia in 2017
4 October 2018 Kaspersky Lab researchers monitoring the various clusters of the long standing, Russian-speaking threat actor, Turla (also known as Snake or Uroburos) have discovered that the most recent evolution of its KopiLuwak malware is delivered to victims...
3 August 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a new wave of financial spear-phishing emails designed to make money for cybercriminals.
9 May 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes.
26 April 2018Kaspersky Lab has published its report looking at botnet-assisted DDoS attacks for the first quarter of 2018
4 April 2018Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered that more and more cyber criminals are turning their attention to malicious software that is mining cryptocurrencies at the expense of users’ mobile devices.
27 March 2018Over a quarter of businesses that have been hit by a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack don’t think they were the intended target, highlighting that businesses can’t afford to be complacent when it comes to today’s threat landscape.
15 March 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have revealed that the group behind the Prilex point-of-sale malware can now turn stolen credit card data into functional plastic cards.
10 March 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have observed that the Russian-speaking threat actor Sofacy, also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear is shifting its targeting to the Far East.
10 March 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a sophisticated threat used for cyber-espionage in the Middle East and Africa from at least 2012 until February 2018.
9 March 2018A new attribution method helped Kaspersky Lab to identify a very sophisticated false flag
28 February 2018In 2017 Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies detected over 246 million user attempts to visit different kinds of phishing pages.
7 February 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have helped uncover a number of unknown vulnerabilities that have left petrol stations around the world exposed to remote takeover, often for years.
16 November 2017New findings point to possible access by multiple third-parties to a computer containing classified data.
14 November 2017 In the coming year, the world will see more legitimate software being poisoned by groups targeting wider victim profiles and geographies, with the added advantage that such attacks are extremely hard to spot and mitigate, according to Kaspersky...
17 October 2017Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a malware targeting ATMs, which was being openly sold on the DarkNet market.
4 October 2017 Sophisticated threat actors are actively hacking other attack groups in order to steal victim data, borrow tools and techniques and re-use each other’s infrastructure – making accurate threat intelligence ever harder for security researchers,...
3 October 2017Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise, with over a third (33 per cent) of organisations facing a DDoS attack in 2017 – compared to 17 per cent in 2016.
13 September 2017More than 2,500 victims were able to decrypt their data, with more than one million dollars already saved, thanks to the global initiative
13 September 2017 A stealthy threat actor known as StrongPity has spent the summer luring users of encryption software to its watering holes and infected installers, according to a paper presented at Virus Bulletin by Kaspersky Lab security researcher, Kurt...
24 August 2017 Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered an unusual rise in mobile Trojan clickers that are stealing money from Android users through Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) billing – a type of direct mobile payment taken without any additional...
17 August 2017Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new modification of the well-known mobile banking Trojan Faketoken, which has been developed and is now able to steal credentials from popular taxi applications.