threats

Malware inflicts damage to your system, yet is ephemeral and rarely visible to the naked eye, especially in digital domains beyond your own PC. But nevertheless, you have an opportunity

With each passing year, the mobile malware landscape continues to evolve. It’s now driven by groups of criminals working  to carry out large scale attacks and earn substantial profits. There

DDoS attack without head… A powerful and very unusual DDoS attack was discovered in mid-October. The attack was unusual in that it employed a version of the Phantom JS headless

Our security researchers have discovered yet another Advanced Persistent Threat (APT). “Icefog” targets government institutions, military contractors and industrial companies, mostly in Japan and South Korea. The Icefog backdoor uses

Kaspersky Lab has published its report on the evolution of threats in the second quarter of 2013. This period has been marked with a number of security incidents of different

In addition to the above examples, there were two other large scale and highly scandalous invasions in July and August of last year. The victims were users of the popular

Contemporary educational institutions in the US are now as computerized as any corporation or government agency and, in the case of technologically oriented universities, sometimes to an even greater extent.

On June 19, Opera Software, the developer of one of the most popular Internet browsers- mainly used on mobile devices, admitted that the company’s internal network infrastructure was attacked and

The large American supermarket chain, Raley’s Family of Fine Stores, which is comprised of 120 stores in California and Nevada, became the target of a “complex criminal cyber-attack.” The company

The cyber threat landscape is constantly evolving and keeping up with those changes is an intense project. Kaspersky Lab has a team of research experts who are relentless in sniffing

There is a common belief that Apple operating systems are well protected against cybercriminals. This belief used to be true, but Apple users are quickly becoming an attractive target for

Blockbusters, like Star Wars or Independence Day, tell us breathtaking stories in which space blasters, force fields and traveling faster than the speed of light are all commonplace. But there

Kaspersky Lab’s security experts have published the first part of a new study of large scale cyber espionage campaign, called NetTraveler, which aimed at 350 large commercial and government organizations

Four of the 10 most pressing problems facing businesses are linked to information security, and cyber-threats, the most significant of those four, came a close second in the overall top