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Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a new APT campaign that targets government institutions, mainly in the APAC region. It was named “Hellsing” after the string containing the project directory name found within the attack components’ code.

Security is a tough matter for small businesses for multiple reasons; startups and small entities tend to save on their IT wherever possible, and that’s where security failures are common.

Kaspersky Lab and the Dutch cyber-police created a tool that restores files encrypted by CoinVault ransomware.

The cybersecurity has become the everyone’s business, and it raises the demand for continuous update of information for everybody, both high-level security professionals and common corporate users. And especially for the latter, since it is them criminals attack most of the time.

A peculiar botnet codenamed Simda has been taken down as a result of a joint operation between a number of law enforcement agencies and commercial organizations.

Recently Interpol, Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab revealed and the shut down of a huge botnet which zombified about 770,000 PCs worldwide. Check this story out and then check your PC

Threatpost security reporters Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the Github DDoS, Dyre banking malware, privacy threats, hacking and more

An annoying story of ‘free’ WiFi hotspots by St. Petersburg-based Smart WiFi. Nothing is for free, though, as you end up paying with your vk.com credentials

Every security vendor has a portfolio of advanced “anti-malware technologies” that make its products good and even better than all the rest.

The word “IoT” (Internet of Things) has been a buzz word for several years now. It has become the era when more home electronics and cars are connected to the

Children who use mobile devices can be more vulnerable to cyber threats because they are free to surf the Internet at any time or place, without adult supervision.

Over the last few years we have witnessed a number of high-profile, large scale security breaches with quite dramatic consequences, such as massive leaks of personally identifiable data.

A New York artist made an exhibition out of making a single private and anonymous cell phone call outside the scope of government spying. Here’s how he did it:

Phishing used to be an exotic threat, but that was years ago when malicious worms dominated the arena. Much has changed since then, and today phishing routinely hits hard – especially

Can we do anything to mitigate the human factor risks in aviation? The answer is: Yes, we can

There are many cool and funny projects in the world that deal with big data and we’ve gathered the Top 10 list of the most interesting ones. See for yourself!

As cybercrime keeps focusing on profit, the share of plainly malicious spam, spreading out Trojans, phishing links, etc., will grow.

Figures show that just 58% of Android-based smartphones and 63% of Android tablets are protected by any kind of an anti-virus solution, while 31% of smartphones and 41% of tablets are not even password-protected.

There are several ways to avoid phishing attacks on your Facebook account. The common theme in each is to be highly suspicious of any online request for your personal information

Hardware is usually considered relatively safe and clean — as opposed to software which is usually the layer suffering from bugs and malware. But this is no longer true

While it would be obvious to say that DDoS attacks are “bad for business”, the threat is often underestimated, overlooked, or neglected. Surveys show less than 40% of companies take