Press Releases
May 26, 2017 Kaspersky Lab has compiled a report on the history and evolution of the Dridex banking Trojan – a six-year-old threat that has caused millions of dollars’ worth of damage, and which continues to adapt and attack successfully despite many attempts to...
May 22, 2017The global nightmare of ransomware shows no sign of slowing down, with the volume of mobile ransomware rising over three-fold (3.5 times) during the first few months of the year, according to Kaspersky Lab’s Malware Report for Q1, 2017.
May 15, 2017On Friday 12th May, organizations across the world were hit by a massive ransomware attack, named WannaCry, which exploited a (now patched) Microsoft Windows vulnerability revealed in the Shadowbrokers dump on April 14.
May 15, 2017Cybercriminals build a massive botnet to cash-in on aggressive advertising
May 2, 2017Amid a sharp drop in the number of malicious mass mailings, spam actors are learning new ways to bypass spam filters to succeed in their attacks.
April 27, 2017Kaspersky Lab publishes first quarterly summary of the APT landscape
April 26, 2017Kaspersky Lab has announced renewed Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform, a solution to detect advanced threats and targeted attacks for enterprises.
April 25, 2017Kaspersky Lab has published the results of its investigation into the activity of Hajime – a mysterious evolving Internet of Things (IoT) malware that builds a huge peer-to-peer botnet.
April 24, 2017The Kaspersky Lab Global and Analysis Team has analyzed a new version of a previously known Xpan ransomware, and has discovered a decryption method to help victims unlock their files.
April 20, 2017In 2016 there were 702 million attempts to launch an exploit – malware that uses bugs in software to infect devices with additional malicious code like banking Trojans or ransomware.
April 13, 2017The Index is based on an online survey of Internet users around the world, conducted by Kaspersky Lab twice a year. In the second half of 2016, 17,377 respondents from 28 countries were surveyed.
April 10, 2017 Kaspersky Lab is announcing today that its specialized solution for industrial environments now protects the infrastructure of AGC Glass Germany GmbH, the leading provider of automotive glass for BMW, Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Opel and other...
April 5, 2017Kaspersky Lab has published the results of its more-than-year-long investigation into the activity of Lazarus – a notorious hacking group allegedly responsible for the theft of 81 million dollars from the Central Bank of Bangladesh in 2016.
April 5, 2017Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered an emerging and alarming trend: more and more cybercriminals are turning their attention from attacks against private users to targeted ransomware attacks against businesses.
April 4, 2017Nine months after the launch of the No More Ransom (NMR) project, more law enforcement and private partners have joined the initiative, allowing more victims of ransomware to get their files back without paying the criminals.
April 4, 2017Kaspersky Lab experts reconstruct an ATMitch case – and discover a mysterious way to cash out with ATMs
April 4, 2017The Moonlight Maze cyber-espionage attacks sent shockwaves through the US in the late 1990s – two decades later, researchers uncover the original attack tools and find a link to a modern APT
March 28, 2017On average two-in-five computers, related to the technological infrastructure of industrial enterprises, faced cyberattacks in the second half of 2016.
March 23, 2017Kaspersky Lab’s experts have studied the DDoS services available on the black market and determined just how far this illegal business has advanced, as well as the extent of its popularity and profitability
March 23, 2017On average a single cybersecurity incident now costs large businesses $861,000. Meanwhile, small and medium businesses (SMBs) end up paying $86,500.
March 14, 2017The new ransomware string performs targeted attacks against companies
March 9, 2017Financial institutions are under pressure to ramp up security, with trends such as the increased take-up of mobile banking putting banks’ IT infrastructure defenses at growing risk of cyber-attack
March 8, 2017In the wake of the Shamoon malware attacks, a new wiper targets Middle East and shows interest in European targets
March 1, 20172016 saw a near-threefold rise in mobile malware detections compared to 2015 – with a total of 8.5 million malicious installations identified