phishing

Black Friday’s coming, and that means huge rebates and sales. Actually, the hype has already started and the sales have begun. If you have ever tried shopping offline on that

As the Olympic Games in Rio draw nearer, cybercriminals are preparing more and more traps for sports fans. They make use of all kinds of tactics: phishing letters and fake

In 2008 we had the Beijing Olympics. In 2010, everybody awaited the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Now, the Olympics are coming to Rio de Janeiro in a few

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

Apple iPhone users are notorious for their slight indulgence towards those who prefer alternative platforms. Android is constantly under attack by malware and Trojans, they say, while iOS is immune

A few months ago, we were approached by the Dutch TV show Opgelicht?!, which discusses various types of fraud. One of the subjects discussed was the “We-Cycle” phishing campaign where

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

Nowadays PCs are protected much better than before. The up-to-date Windows 8.1 comes with a built-in firewall and a type of anti-virus protection delivered via Defender. Browser developers continue to

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.

April 15 is a day that lives in infamy in the hearts of Americans. Now this date is not significant for any holiday, but rather the day that the Tax

Kaspersky Lab discovered Asacub, a banking trojan which started actively attacking Android users in January. Our experts managed to track its evolution step-by-step. A banking trojan is a type of

If you sit and think about it for a second, online phishing is not that far from actual fishing. The one major difference is that the online fishermen are criminals.

Nearly everyone has faced a cyber criminal’s activity at one point or another. You have probably received a magical SMS that read something like: “You are the winner!!! Your Ferrari

Do you consider yourself cyber-literate? Have you been so immersed in the online life so you can tell what’s real and what’s fake? We recently decided to test our reader’

When you hear adults saying, “kids are helpless,” it makes you angry, right? You bet it does even if you are the most self-sustained teen in the history of your

How much time do you spend scrolling through your friends pages on Facebook? You can obviously tell a lot about their lifestyle and pastime thanks to all those check-ins, selfies

Why would cyber-criminals want to control your Facebook account? At the very least, they could “like” weird things and promote questionable goods and services on your behalf. However, Facebook is

An online password manager can make your life much easier by automatically entering individual passwords for each website and service you visit. It is a very convenient tool – unless

Unwanted email has long stopped being just a source of advertising services or products. The time it takes to erase all spam messages from your inbox is not the only

Recently Kaspersky Lab experts have found a sly method that allows fraudsters to steal personal information without access to the user’s login and password. The cyber criminals do not try

In theory, it’s common knowledge that “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”, but when it comes to practice, some forget about the ‘free lunch’ proverb and prefer another