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What is ransomware? Why do you need to know about it? And how can you protect yourself from it?

Find out if you can avoid traps set by fraudsters for Black Friday sales.

Cybercriminals consider Black Friday and Cyber Monday a great time to steal your money. Here are a few tips on how to stay safe and still have fun.

A helpful guide to buying and selling safely on eBay.

FAQ about ransomware: types, origins, dangers, and how you can stay safe.

Facebook regularly changes its security settings. Take a look: A useful new setting may have appeared since the last time you checked.

Why it’s important to update software — and why you can stop worrying about it.

Careless behaviour online can have devastating personal and financial consequences. Here are seven common shortcuts to avoid.

Everything you need to know about mobile banking Trojans and how to fight them.

How heuristic analysis and System Watcher work in Kaspersky Internet Security

Why questions like “What is your mother’s maiden name?” and “What did you do last summer?” don’t protect you.

Powerful chatbots can replace real-life communication — and take over the world.

Another piece of ransomware bites the dust: Kaspersky Lab now offers a free decryption tool for the WildFire cryptor.

Online dating fraud cost victims millions last year. Be vigilant and protect yourself!

When Canada-based adultery site Ashley Madison was hacked, cybercriminals wasted no time in taking advantage of it. Even now, a year later, they continue to blackmail people and hold their data hostage. We look back at what happened then and talk about what’s happening now.

As the Olympic Games in Rio draw nearer, cybercriminals are preparing more and more traps for sports fans. They make use of all kinds of tactics: phishing letters and fake

Kaspersky Lab experts checked industrial control systems for vulnerabilities and found lots of them.

Everything you need to know about safe posting on any social network, boiled down to five crucial rules.

I remember when Pokémon came out on the Nintendo Gameboy. It was a challenging game that had my friends and me trying to catch all of the monsters. It was

Once, hackers wrote malware just for the fun of it, but now Trojans are serious business. However, here are five modern, weird malware samples that may be funny and strange, but they are still very dangerous.