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Yesterday my favorite part of Kaspersky Lab — which is certainly the lab itself – grew, as we have opened our first European Research Center. It will be home to

Yet another APT of the ‘Dukes family’ is hitting high-profile targets, including the US government office. This time it’s CozyDuke, also known as CozyBear, CozyCar or “Office Monkeys” in honor

In most cases, if you are a victim of ransomware, there’s nothing you can do. Luckily, from time to time police and cybersecurity companies take down command and control servers

A new piece of ransomware has emerged and it’s going after a younger crowd by encrypting only those files on infected machines that relate to online game play

It turned out that Lenovo’s laptops had been shipped with an adware called Superfish. It possibly allows eavesdropping on encrypted connections.

Kaspersky Lab researchers uncovered Desert Falcons, the first exclusively Arabic APT group, presenting their findings at the Security Analyst Summit in Cancun.

A malware that cannot be wiped from the victim’s hard drive does exist. However, it’s so rare and expensive, that you probably won’t ever encounter it.

The Carbanak APT group managed to steal a total of $1 bln from dozens of banks worldwide

New version of CTB-Locker, a ransomware that uses Tor and Bitcoin to evade detection and takedowns, should be avoided at all costs.

A researcher has developed a nasty bootkit capable of taking complete control of Mac OS X devices. Here is what you need to know.

For the second time in three years, Sony is the main character in a massive and humiliating cyberattack.

A new variant of the Zeus banking trojan has emerged, targeting consumer accounts at 150 banks in 15 countries.

Kaspersky Lab experts analyze the security and privacy trends that emerged in 2014, including anonymous Tor browsing, ransomware, APT attacks and more.

Catch up on our most popular posts from November.

In this Talk Security podcast, Threatpost’s Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the move to encrypt the Web, the Regin APT campaign and more.

A new APT campaign called Regin targets the usual victims plus a prestigious cryptographer and the GSM standard on which most cellular communications occur.

The first five victims of Stuxnet were deliberately selected by the attackers and allowed to execute an attack on the uranium enrichment plant in Netenz.

In this episode of the Talk Security podcast, Threatpost’s Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the Dark Hotel cyberespionage campaign and the WireLurker Apple malware.

Read highlights from our top posts in October.

Drupal warns customers that they should assume their sites are compromised unless they installed an update from mid-October within hours of the release.

Antivirus protection is often perceived as a process of simply blocking what is bad. However, it’s as much a process of approving what is good.