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Kaspersky Lab’s regular reports on threat dynamics and trends are called “IT Threat Evolution” not just for catchy word’s sake. IT threats are improving well in accordance with the laws of evolution – i.e. “natural selection”.

Quite a few new APT campaigns were discovered in the last year and a half. Here is a glimpse of a potential landslide in the making with two of them.

In Q1 of 2015, the amount of spam in the world’s email traffic is less than it was a few years ago, but still too high. Junk mail goes from annoying to dangerous when infected by cybercriminals.

Fighting unwanted and often dangerous correspondence is a must for comprehensive protection of infrastructure and requires solutions which are based on effective antispam technologies.

SC Magazine’s annual Award results are in, and Kaspersky Lab is among the winners.

Most of the security announcements surrounding Windows 10 business-oriented, as they address the primary IT security problems businesses have to face. Judging by those announcements, Microsofts seems to address the issues properly.

Kaspersky Lab has just released its quarterly report on IT threats evolution. It’s full of woeful figures, showing that threats keep climbing. Judging by dynamics, this trend is here to stay for a time.

A serious zero-day has been disclosed in Unity Web Player. We provide a full breakdown of what it means and how you can protect yourself.

“Retrofitted and added cybersecurity” is not an option for the Smart Cities concept: risks are too dire to build “seven cities of cyber-Troy” upon each other. Our position here is that cybersecurity should be considered early on, at every possible level.

The primary issue here is the real cost of free offers. Hola’s stance is almost honest: You want free services? You have something that is of use to us – your idle or not-so-idle resources. If you don’t want them to be used by us, there is a paid tier for you.

It looks like the development of BYOD in the commercial sector has outrun the recognition of the risks it poses. It’s worth mentioning, however, that similar risks are posed by any new “invasive species” of tech, and there is nothing unseen with BYOD.

According to a study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, only 37% of the organizations surveyed said they currently have measures in place to protect against DDoS-attacks.

Kaspersky Lab has just publicized the discovery of a new cyber-espionage campaign. Unlike previous thresats, it’s targeting smaller entities – namely SMBs. That’s where it gets interesting.

Technology dependence cannot be beaten, but the technologies can be laid out properly. With good system architecture and a proper security policy, the number of bottlenecks is brought to an absolute minimum.

For many people security measures are a “secondary accessory,” and not something that should be cared for first and foremost. This is a common, but innately flawed mode of thinking.

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.

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?

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.

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:

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.

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.