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Simda was a rather mysterious botnet that had been used for dissemination of third-party potentially unwanted and malicious software. It has a built-in tools to detect and evade emulation, virtual machines and security tools, effectively allowing the bot to stay out of grid – apparently for years.

Ransomware is a huge problem nowadays, with new examples circulating on a regular basis. Learn how to protect yourself.

Encrypting ransomware is a relatively new, but extremely pesky, threat that is evolving at a rapid pace, becoming a more advanced problem for end-users and businesses alike. What can be done about it?

Much has been said about the VENOM vulnerability, which is part of the new-age phenomena of Virtualization.

A new, Chinese-language APT has emerged, seeking geopolitical information and targeting nations in and around the South China Sea

When you look at airplanes moving on a map, you get the feeling it’s sheer Brownian motion. Of course, that’s not the case: aircrafts keep to air tracks all the time.

Using a biochip, Microsoft Kinect, a servo, and a bit of IT magic, we are going to make the imaginary idea of Jedi Force come to life in the real world!

Our personal implementation of the cloud security model is called Kaspersky Security Network. And here we’ll explain how it actually works.

Kaspersky Lab experts have investigated one of the most active APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats) in Asia, operating specifically around the South China Sea area. It was named “Naikon” after the  “nokian” User-Agent substring within an attack components’ code.

How many research centers do you need to fight for a safer cyber world? We used to have three labs based in Moscow, Beijing, and Seattle. Now, we’re excited to announce the opening of a fourth lab — our new European Research Center based in London.

Kaspersky Lab hosted the Kaspersky Cybersecurity Summit 2015 in Singapore this April, dedicated to enterprise IT Security challenges – and solutions. The motto for the event was: “Business under attack:

It was recently discovered that certain Hospira drug infusion pumps contain dangerous and easily exploitable security vulnerabilities.

A legendary Soviet spy, Richard Sorge, is famous for conveying the exact date of the German invasion into the Soviet Union, and for letting the command know Japan had no plans of attacking the USSR in the Far East.

Personal smartphones and tablets are used to store working data, both personal and corporate passwords, and other sensitive information. So, it is troubling that mobile protection often lags behind.

Five lessons from the story of the Enigma cryptographic machine which are still relevant.

This post isn’t about smearing the good, evolving system that is Apple’s Mac OS X. The goal was to bring perception and reality together: just like the other operating systems, Mac OS X has its fair share of bugs, and while the historically smaller Mac user base has resulted in less cyber criminal targeting, it doesn’t make Mac OS X impervious. Macs’ user base has been growing steadily over the last few years, and criminal interest is following the same pattern.

During WW2 modern cryptography principles were often coupled with ‘amateur’ ciphering methods. Curiously, the latter ones often proved to be equally reliable

Let’s imagine the things we would have to leave behind as a brand new world of driverless cars is evolving at a full speed (besides the enjoyment of driving itself)

We’ve created an infographic that shows how the Kaspersky Lab flagship antivirus software has improved over the last 10 years.

New research demonstrates that it is possible to hack and hijack devices used to perform remote surgery

Mid-April in Singapore was pretty hot not only because of tropical climate, but also because of INTERPOL World – a huge conference/exhibition organized by INTERPOL to give security product vendors