Hospital learns the hard way why you don’t pay ransomware crooks
When you are sick, you head to the doctor. However, when your computer is suffering from an infection, you probably shouldn’t ask for your doctor’s advice. At Kaspersky Lab, we
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When you are sick, you head to the doctor. However, when your computer is suffering from an infection, you probably shouldn’t ask for your doctor’s advice. At Kaspersky Lab, we
Unlike previous malware trends that have varying purposes, ransomware’s is quite simple: Get Money. With a goal like that spurring on malicious developers, it’s no wonder ransomware’s star is on
I think we can all agree that dating is (was in the case of married folks) hard. Opening yourself up to someone else just leaves you vulnerable. In today’s connected
At the tail end of last month, we announced that our researchers had developed a decryption tool to beat CryptXXX ransomware and help the victims get their files back for
In the United States, the political season is heating up as the country is prepping for their presidential election for the successor to Barack Obama. The whole process of political
Let’s face it, you can’t tune into the news without hearing something about ransomware. The scourge of the Internet has seen its profile raise over the past few months as
Heading into the NFL Draft, Laremy Tunsil was considered by many to be the top player in the draft and would be one of the first players selected. Unfortunately for
Typically we don’t cheer bugs. However, today we’ll make an exception. You see a bug or flaw in the code of Petya ransomware has allowed a developer to create a
No matter how old you are, it’s most likely you know all about stately Wayne Manor and its billionaire owner, Bruce Wayne. If you don’t you probably have heard of
When I was in middle school a friend of mine got a computer, soon after that he got this cool program called AOL and it instantly made his house the
When a product is built, the manufacturer typically has a lifecycle in mind in regards to how long a consumer will ideally use the device. For example smartphones are something
During the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco, Kurt Baumgartner, Principal Security Researcher, Global Research & Analysis Team, discussed the need for the transportation industry to put some focus onto
Please stop me if you have heard this before: ‘I don’t need a security solution for my Mac. They are super-secure and are completely immune to viruses.’ Do you believe
At the RSA Conference in San Francisco, I sat in on a panel that raised an interesting question in the insecure big data world that we live in. Ian Amit
During the RSA Conference in San Francisco Stephen Balkam, Founder and CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute gave a presentation focused on the Risks, Harms and Rewards of our
We talk a lot about phishing and how dangerous it is. At times we feel like we may talk about it too much to where people simply say, “yeah, yeah.
Do you stream music on Spotify at home or work? Chances are that you are one of the millions of users to the popular online service. So you should read
Sometimes when installing freeware, users rush and often wind up installing “extra” features that can include adware, unnecessary extensions and browser toolbars. It’s quite understandable as anyone can miss one
The SAS has come and gone. A lot of great knowledge was dropped during the conference including insights on Poseidon, Adwind and Metel. As we come back to reality, we
Mike Mimoso of Threatpost sat down with Vitaly Kamluk of our Global Research and Analysis Team during the Security Analyst Summit 2016 to discuss the latest discovery of the cross-platform
At the SAS 2016, Kaspersky Lab’s GReAT team unveiled how dozens of banks lost millions of dollars via APT tools. We know that the blogs were a tad long so