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cybercriminals

44 articles

  • cybercriminals

Enjoy your Steam: how criminals make money on gamers

Why Steam users often fall victims to scams and frauds and how to avoid it.

  • Kaspersky Team

  • March 5, 2020

  • data breaches

The ten largest data breaches of the past decade

We look back at some of the most significant data-breaches of the past ten years.

  • David Buxton

  • January 29, 2020

  • connected devices

How to not break the Internet

An unwitting army of connected devices caused an insane disruption of major Internet sites. IoT users need to wise up.

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • October 26, 2016

  • cybercriminals

How to fool blind chance, or Lottery scams of the digital age

Now, a great number to attract your attention: $16.5 million. This is how much the jackpot was for a lottery ticket one man arranged to win.

  • Igor Kuksov

  • July 28, 2016

  • atm

Invisible Skimmers at the ATMs

Criminals behind the ATM Infector campaign are turning ATMs into invisible skimmers.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • May 17, 2016

  • break

What happens when criminals hack a radio station?

Hackers took control over several USA FM stations’ equipment and released a provocative podcast on the air.

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • April 21, 2016

  • CTB-locker

CTB-Locker ransomware infects 70 web servers

CTB-Locker comes back and strikes 70 web server from 10 countries across the globe. Who is at risk and what should they do?

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • March 17, 2016

  • apt

What is known about the Lazarus Group: Sony hack, military espionage, attacks on Korean banks and other crimes

Kaspersky Lab and partners reveal details of the joint investigation of the Lazarus group hazardous activity.

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • February 25, 2016

  • analytics

Using math to catch a cybercriminal

Observing cybercriminals’ behaviour one can find consistent patterns and thus find out who the criminal is in real life

  • John Snow

  • February 10, 2016

  • aircraft

7 reasons you shouldn’t post your boarding pass online

Think a photo of your boarding pass is innocent when posted online? Think again.

  • Ilja Shatilin

  • November 9, 2015

  • advice

Security do’s and don’ts: Keeping weirdos aside

Cybercriminals often pretend to be nice and amiable. Here are a few rules how not to become a victim of these malicious folks.

  • Marvin the Robot

  • July 20, 2015

  • ask expert

Ask the expert: Vitaly Kamluk tells how Interpol catches cyber criminals and other stories

Vitaly Kamluk has more than 10 years of experience in IT security and now holds the title of Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab. He specializes in reverse engineering malware,

  • Marvin the Robot

  • June 26, 2015

  • atm

Quantum plastic: an insight into credit cards of the future

In our recent blog post, “Jiggling with cards: doing criminal business on ATMs“, we told you how easily you could lose your money because of the tricks carders play on

  • Vladislav Biryukov

  • February 6, 2015

  • atm

Juggle-ling with cards: doing criminal business on ATMs, part 2

In part one of our article, we discussed technology used by bank card ‘seekers’. Today we’ll relate another part of the story, covering how criminals carry out the most dangerous skimming

  • Vladislav Biryukov

  • February 2, 2015

  • cybercriminals

2014’s Top Private Data Leaks

Every year millions of people become victims of a data breach. For the majority, the results are the same: hackers sell users’ data on underground websites and companies have to rush

  • Kate Kochetkova

  • January 28, 2015

  • atm

Juggling with cards: doing criminal business on ATMs

We all know to be aware of pickpockets. Even if it did not include tips on watching your pockets when outdoors, life itself provides opportunities to learn the simple rules.

  • Vladislav Biryukov

  • January 21, 2015

  • bashdoor

10 Best Tweets on Security in 2014

Last year was an eventful one for the IT-security field. There were a lot of incidents, starting with global vulnerabilities to showdowns with local cybercriminals.  So, as way of looking back we

  • Alex Savitsky

  • January 12, 2015

  • apt

DarkHotel: a spy campaign in luxury Asian hotels

Kaspersky Lab revealed a cyberspy campaign, Darkhotel, which had been active for seven years in a number of luxury Asian hotels.

  • Alex Drozhzhin

  • November 10, 2014

  • atm

Infected ATMs gave away millions of dollars

Using a trojan malware with the Russian name, Tyupkin, hackers made cash withdrawals without so much as accessing bank accounts.

  • Alex Savitsky

  • October 7, 2014

  • Busted

Busted! Top prosecutions of August

The final month of summer wasn’t full of cybercriminal stories, but law enforcement groups around the world still found and punished some evildoers.

  • Alex Savitsky

  • September 17, 2014

  • cybercriminals

Busted! Top prosecutions of July

July is over and that means it’s time to look back and observe the latest results of the battle between cybercriminals and prosecutors.

  • Alex Savitsky

  • August 4, 2014

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