The number of financial phishing attacks is expected to rise during the Holiday season which starts unofficially on so-called Black Friday and continues through Cyber Monday and Christmas. Retrospective research by Kaspersky Lab specialists shows that, over the last few years, the holiday period was marked by an increase in...
Kaspersky Lab announces that its Industrial CyberSecurity Platform has won this year’s World Leading Internet Scientific and Technological Achievement Award at the 3rd World Internet Conference in Wuzhen, China this week. From among 60 tech innovations from different parts of the globe, Kaspersky Lab’s Industrial CyberSecurity Platform 2016 has made...
According to the Kaspersky Lab Spam and Phishing in Q3 report, the company’s products blocked 73,066,751 attempts to attack users with malicious attachments. This is the largest amount of malicious spam since the beginning of 2014 and is a 37% increase compared to the previous quarter. The majority of those...
Parents need to do more to protect their kids from the growing number of online threats, but many currently lack visibility of the dangers their children are facing. New research from Kaspersky Lab reveals that only a quarter (26%) use parental control software to help restrict their kids’ activity online....
The number of Internet users that encountered encrypting ransomware more than doubled in Q3 2016, reaching 821 865 people, according to the Kaspersky Lab quarterly IT threat evolution report. The number of people attacked has now risen for the third quarter in the row. Encrypting ransomware – malware that encrypts a...
Research from Kaspersky Lab shows that the debate over whether ransomware victims should pay up could be redundant because large numbers don’t actually get their files back even if they have paid the cyber criminals. The study found that over a third of victims (36%) choose to pay a ransom...
Kaspersky Lab has announced a new partnership with TÜV Rheinland to enhance the cyber resilience of the transportation industry, particularly in the field of railway cybersecurity. Under the framework cooperation agreement, Kaspersky Lab will contribute security assessment, intelligence reporting and penetration testing services to the wide range of services and...
By: Sarah Pike of Kaspersky Lab In the beginning, the Internet was not terrifically user-friendly — early users needed tech chops just to get online, and they had to do so over a wired, dial-up connection. Between those online pioneers’ savvy and the relatively few other Internet users, online behavior with...
More than 2,500 victims were able to decrypt their data, with more than 1 million dollars already saved, thanks to the global initiative Just three months after the successful launch of the No More Ransom project, law enforcement agencies from a further 13 countries have signed up to fight ransomware...
Manila, Philippines – Protect your devices against the ever-present online threats plus be the lucky grand winner of P100,000 tax-free in Kaspersky 2017 Secure and Text To Win Promo. With P300,000 thousand worth of prizes, loyal consumers of Kaspersky Lab’s cybersecurity products will be given an early Christmas...
One of the key topics of Kaspersky Lab’s Cyber Security Weekend for Asia Pacific Countries that took place on 5-8 October 2016 in Indonesia was financial cybersecurity. The company’s experts and guests discussed financial threats that are currently on the rise globally and starting to penetrate the APAC region. “Financial...
The annual Kaspersky Lab Cyber Security Weekend for Asia Pacific countries took place on 5-8 October 2016 in Bali, Indonesia, and gathered industry professionals with the aim of raising awareness about cybersecurity issues, highlighting the current IT threats affecting the region and sharing advice on how to mitigate them. Special...
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