Cybercriminals love people in HR departments, because their job includes opening files that come from unknown sources — CVs, application materials, and so on. And these files quite often contain something malicious. You know who’s in the same boat, for the very same reason? Freelancers. Freelancers also have to communicate...
Kaspersky Lab researchers monitoring the various clusters of the long standing, Russian-speaking threat actor, Turla (also known as Snake or Uroburos) have discovered that the most recent evolution of its KopiLuwak malware is delivered to victims using code nearly identical to that used just a month earlier by the Zebrocy...
Kaspersky Lab finds 75% of people pick up their connected device to avoid conversing with another human being Connected devices are becoming essential to keeping people in contact with each other, but for many they are also a much needed comfort blanket in a variety of social situations when they...
As part of its corporate social responsibility initiatives on Skills Training and Employment Program, Metro Retail Stores Group, Inc. (MRSGI), through its ancillary business, Suisse Cottage, recently kicked off its baking workshop series at Metro Supermarket Alabang. This project, in coordination with local government units, provides free lecture and hands...
With the undeniable dependency of humans to their connected devices, amid the steadily increasing number of attacks and the whopping costs of successful data breaches, Kaspersky Lab recently stressed the need for improved cyber hygiene among Internet users to protect the intangible, yet highly valuable digital assets. The global cybersecurity...
Kaspersky Lab reveals today that heightened cyberheist activity by the notorious Lazarus group will give rise to more fake supply chain attacks to deliver ever stealthier infections. The cybergang has also been discovered to have reinforced its financial attack portfolio with malware targeting the MacOS platform. “We have observed how...
Kaspersky Lab presented the cybersecurity risks that can result from Balkanisation in cyberspace—the fragmentation of the world wide web, during its 4th Asia Pacific (APAC) Cyber Security Weekend in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Held annually, this year’s conference featured key cybersecurity issues presented by the company’s top researchers and executives to...
Just five months after Kaspersky Lab’s first report on the DNS hijacking operation to infect Android smartphones in Asia, the attack dubbed ‘Roaming Mantis’ remains highly active, exploring new tricks and techniques to extend its reach. Close monitoring by Kaspersky Lab experts discovered that the Roaming Mantis was attempting to...
The new head of the Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions (CITEM), the export promotion arm of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), gears up the Philippine creative industry as a key driver for economic growth in the upcoming CREATE Philippines 2018. “Create Philippines serves as a development...
According to the Kaspersky Lab IoT report, in the first half of 2018, IoT devices were attacked with more than 120,000 modifications of malware. That’s more than triple the amount of IoT malware seen in the whole of 2017. Kaspersky Lab warns that the snowballing growth of malware families for...
Phone malfunctions, low batteries and theft: not being able to connect is making us mess up, survey shows Staying connected is now an obligatory part of showing you care. According to a study from Kaspersky Lab, connectivity is now a vital part of our duty to family, friends and loved...
The Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) has discovered several infections from a previously unknown Trojan, which is most likely related to the infamous Chinese-speaking threat actor – LuckyMouse. The most peculiar trait of this malware is its hand-picked driver, signed with a legitimate digital certificate, which has...
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