Threats

How scammers are exploiting the GDPR fuss to extract personal data.

Here’s how scammers try to phish for verification codes — and what may happen if you send them one.

Originally targeting users from Japan, Korea, and China, Roaming Mantis is quickly spreading worldwide, infecting smartphones through hacked wi-fi routers.

Plan a great vacation — and don’t take a phisher’s bait.

Do you follow the news? The news may also be following you. ZooPark spyware targets those partial to politics.

Fake airline giveaways won’t win you a ticket, but they might steal your data.

Tinkering with smart car firmware

Even very popular apps display ads using third-party code, which can transmit personal data unencrypted.

Malefactors are massively exploiting a vulnerability in Cisco switches, taking down entire segments of the Web.

Hidden miners detected in soccer and VPN apps on Google Play — steer clear!

Most computer infections come from visiting porn sites, or so some people say. Are they right?

The day I turned home network defender and stopped making fun of IoT developers.

Researchers investigate how vulnerabilities in robots can be exploited to take control of them.

At this year’s Security Analyst Summit, Inbar Raz revealed how he managed to crack a cafe chain’s loyalty card system, a taxi service, and an airport

Yachts are now Internet-friendly — and vulnerable because developers aren’t focusing on information security.

Experts from Kaspersky Lab studied digital evidence related to the hacking attack on the 2018 Olympics in search of the actual attacker.

Avoid the phishing bait and protect your Telegram account

At MWC 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers show how easily a smart home can be hacked.

Kaspersky Lab publishes an update on Russian-speaking Sofacy APT activity in 2017

Cybercriminals attack Telegram users with an old trick for masking malware as pictures.

Belgian police and Kaspersky Lab obtain decryption keys for files hit by Cryakl.