{"id":9224,"date":"2015-07-01T12:58:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T16:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2020-02-26T18:55:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T16:55:03","slug":"kaspersky-safe-money-mrg-effitas-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/kaspersky-safe-money-mrg-effitas-award\/9224\/","title":{"rendered":"MRG Effitas awarded Kaspersky Lab for an outstanding protection of online payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/independent-tests-2014\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaspersky Lab solutions are regularly qualified as the best by a great number of independent security tests<\/a>. Recently, MRG Effitas awarded Kaspersky Lab\u2019s technology for online banking protection with its highest accolade, OnlineBanking\/Browser Security Award.<\/p>\n<p>Researches examined Kaspersky Lab solutions for four quarters in 2014-2015. Safe Money, a technology incorporated into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/advert\/multi-device-security?redef=1&amp;THRU&amp;reseller=gl_KDpost_pro_ona_smm__onl_b2c_kasperskydaily_lnk____kismd___\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kaspersky Internet Security<\/a>, provided high-quality protection for online banking operations. It was acknowledged as\u00a0one of the most reliable, and awarded with the MRG Effitas Certified status.<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/kis-safe-money-settings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Money<\/a>: This is one of the key security technologies that ensures multi-level protection for a user\u2019s online financial activity. Kaspersky solutions use it while checking the computer for malware, ensuring that the payment site is authentic and safeguarding transactions.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">How to set up Safe Money \u2013  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iCYi8LstIB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/iCYi8LstIB<\/a> via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaspersky?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">@kaspersky<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/security?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">#security<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaspersky Technical Support (@kl_support) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kl_support\/status\/514059410277036032?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">September 22, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>MRG Effitas experts regularly examine the latest versions of specialized and universal software that secure transactions. The last series of tests were performed over\u00a012 months. During that time, researchers were using different methods and approaches to evaluate the protection quality from different perspectives.<\/p>\n<p>In the beginning of the research, security solutions had to combat collections of recently discovered, active financial malware, and prevent any leakage of payment data during transactions made from already-infected systems which were designed to imitate the most commonly seen botnets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2015\/07\/06024615\/mrg-effitas-award-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9226\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/103\/2015\/07\/06024615\/mrg-effitas-award-logo.jpg\" alt=\"MRG Effitas awarded Kaspersky Lab for an outstanding protection of online payments\" width=\"6023\" height=\"3508\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrg-effitas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Online-Banking-Certification-Project-2014-Q2-Report-Level-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Q2 2014<\/a>\u00a0the researchers bombarded security solutions, simulating a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/man-in-the-middle-attack\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man-in-The-Middle attack<\/a>. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrg-effitas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/MRG-Effitas-Online-Banking-Certification-2014-Q3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Q3 2014<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrg-effitas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/MRG-Effitas-Online-Banking-Certification-2015-Q1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Q1 2015<\/a>, they tried to deceive security systems by redirecting API calls.<\/p>\n<p>And to round\u00a0out the testing, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mrg-effitas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/MRG-Effitas-Online-Banking-Certification-2014-Q4-Level-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Q4 2014<\/a> they attempted to bypass browser protection with the help of Windows Application Compatibility and the Windows AppInit DLL method.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-pullquote\"><p>MRG Effitas awarded @kaspersky\u2019s technology for online banking #protection with its highest accolade<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkas.pr%2F1DBe&amp;text=MRG+Effitas+awarded+%40kaspersky%26%238217%3Bs+technology+for+online+banking+%23protection+with+its+highest+accolade\" class=\"btn btn-twhite\" data-lang=\"en\" data-count=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tweet<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kaspersky Internet Security was put to an additional test: For several operations, MRG Effitas experts ran KIS with all its subsystems disabled apart from Safe Money. Even that could not prevent the product from successfully blocking all threats in the test!<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Kaspersky Lab solutions have received the highest awards from MRG Effitas. In 2013,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/kis-shines-in-independent-anti-phishing-testing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kaspersky Internet Security also demonstrated excellent quality and high protection level<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kaspersky Internet Security 2013 Shines Again in Independent Testing <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/soM34Kb0tt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">http:\/\/t.co\/soM34Kb0tt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kaspersky (@kaspersky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaspersky\/status\/344888428015546368?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">June 12, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>MRG Effitas experts recognized both the high performance during the tests and high protection quality that are consistently provided by Kaspersky solutions during every test, in spite of an ever-changing threat landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MRG Effitas awarded Kaspersky Lab its highest accolade for the development of reliable security technology for online 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