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In recent times we’ve been seeing a lot of file-encrypting ransomware activity. One of the new ones we’ve seen pop up in the last couple weeks is called ZeroLocker.

Kaspersky Lab products detected and neutralized a total of 995,534,410 threats in the second quarter of 2014. 927,568 computers running Kaspersky Lab products were attacked by banking malware. 65,118 new malicious mobile programs were detected. 2033 mobile banking Trojans were detected in this period, 1.7 times more than last quarter.

AndroidOS.Koler.a a ransomware program that blocks the screen of an infected device and requests a ransom in order to unlock the device. An entire network of malicious porn sites linked to a traffic direction system that redirects the victim to different payloads targeting not only mobile devices but any other visitor.

Dubai today has become a global city and a business hub, same is going for threats and malware attacks, UAE is the most attacked country in the Middle East.

At the beginning of June we identified a new spin-off version of the Trojan. While the main version targeted Russia, 91% of those infected by the new version were in the US.

As the Bitcoin 2014 conference is unwinding here in Amsterdam today, I have to admit that I am impressed by how the crypto-currency community is making rapid steps towards reaching maturity.

The eighth annual Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS VIII) was held in Hong Kong on April 8th , 9th and 10th, 2014.

The proportion of spam in email traffic in February was up 4.2 percentage points and averaged 69.9%.

With the Xbox One having landed in many countries, it’s time to have a closer look at the new console generation. The Xbox One is equipped with two virtualized operating systems, both running on a hypervisor: the core system for gaming and a slimmed down version of Windows 8 for the app landscape. It is

In 2014 we expect significant growth in the number of threats related to economic and domestic cyber-espionage.

Once again, it’s time for us to deliver our customary retrospective of the key events that have defined the threat landscape in 2013.

Read about the Cryptolocker malware, a new ransomware Trojan that encrypts your files and demands money to return them.

According to KSN data, Kaspersky Lab products detected and neutralized a total of 983 051 408 threats in the second quarter of 2013.

As the binary is still being analyzed, in this article we will focus only on the delivery part. Even if the exploit is not a zero-day, it’s pretty interesting…

The percentage of spam in email traffic was down 1 percentage point compared with February and averaged 70.1%