Press Releases
30 August 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have published a report on botnet activity in the first half of 2018, analysing more than 150 malware families and their modifications circulating through 600,000 botnets around the world.
23 August 2018Researchers in Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) have discovered AppleJeus - a new malicious operation by the infamous Lazarus group.
21 August 2018 A sophisticated cyber-operation code-named Dark Tequila has been targeting users mainly in Latin America and in particular Mexico, for at least the last five years, stealing bank credentials, personal and corporate data with malware that can move...
14 August 2018In the second quarter of 2018, Kaspersky Lab’s anti-phishing technologies prevented over 107 million attempts to visit phishing pages, of which 35.7% were related to financial services and targeting customers through fake banking or payment pages.
6 August 2018Mobile banking Trojans hit the list of cyber-headaches in Q2 2018.
2 August 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a new wave of financial spear-phishing emails designed to make money for cybercriminals.
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.
19 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.
14 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 2018 Kaspersky Lab researchers have helped uncover a number of unknown vulnerabilities that have left gas stations around the world exposed to remote takeover, often for years. The vulnerabilities were found in an embedded gas station controller of which...
6 February 2018 Accidental DDoS attacks by spammers, political sabotage and the owners of DDoS botnets attempting to make money from Bitcoin – these are just some of the trends analyzed in Kaspersky Lab's fourth quarter report for 2017 based on data from Kaspersky...
17 January 2018As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to increase in popularity globally, a recent survey* was commissioned by Kaspersky Lab in South Africa.
11 January 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have identified a new intriguing malware with multiple modules.
14 December 2017The number of new malicious files processed by Kaspersky Lab’s in-lab detection technologies reached 360,000 a day in 2017, which is 11.5% more than the previous year.
13 December 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...
7 December 2017Half of parents globally think that online threats to their children are increasing and one-in-three feel that they do not have any control over what their children see or do online.
5 December 2017Online Dating Users Bare All, Shows Kaspersky Lab Survey
29 November 2017In 2017, 26.2% of those targeted by ransomware were business users, compared to 22.6% in 2016.
27 November 2017Connected smart devices are generally considered to be a very convenient way to make our lives easier.
23 November 2017Caring for elderly relatives or children – in the face of today’s online dangers – is a difficult task.
21 November 2017 The saying goes ‘don’t mix business with pleasure’, but research from Kaspersky Lab reveals business owners and employees could be unwittingly putting their companies at risk, with many of them using work devices to keep up their dating habits, or...