Threats

ATMs will soon use fingerprint readers and iris sensors to identify customers. But is biometric authentication as secure as advertised?

Three months in, we report on the development of No More Ransom and the goals we’ve already achieved.

Everything you need to know about mobile banking Trojans and how to fight them.

We explain three important concepts underlying antivirus action: signatures, the nature of viruses, and how antivirus solutions remove malware.

The DressCode Trojan was found in more than 400 apps on Google Play.

That free Spotify gave some users malware.

Polyglot, aka MarsJoke, had aspirations. It was trying to be the next CTB-Locker — but we developed a cure.

i-Dressup, a community for teenage girls, is actively leaking passwords in plain text.

We have more bad news from the Yahoo hack: Even without a yahoo.com account, you may be at risk.

Malicious USB devices left in mailboxes.

Security researchers claim that they have managed to remotely hack an unmodified Tesla Model S with the latest firmware installed.

We discovered a Pokémon Go Trojan in Google Play. It had already been downloaded 500,000 times.

Fantom ransomware displays a fake Windows Update screen while encrypting your files.

Some Android Trojans can write reviews and rate apps on behalf of users, but without their consent.

Hackers have stolen 68 million account credentials from Dropbox dating back to 2012. Here’s what you should do.

How Kaspersky Lab helped the Russian police catch the cybercriminals behind the Lurk banking Trojan and Angler exploit kit.

Powerful chatbots can replace real-life communication — and take over the world.

One Instagram post with a picture of a ticket can cost you a whole lot of time and money and ruin your day. This is how you can avoid it

Today, it seems everything can be hacked. Even your vibrator. This is the tale of developers of very intimate goods who do not value the privacy of their clients.

How concerned should we be with industrial security?

So you found a USB stick outside. Should you use it?