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Microsoft is patching a fair number of vulnerabilities in their software with 19 flaws being fixed.

The percentage of spam in email traffic grew by 2.3 percentage points from August and averaged 72.5%

The Internet knows no borders, but according to our data, cybercrime has specific ‘geographical features’.

This time we have come across an interesting specimen: the Xpaj file infector, complete with bootkit functionality and able to run both under Windows x86 and Windows x64.

A simple message on a Google forum in August sparked an investigation which would eventually bring down the DigiNotar certificate authority.

Network devices such as routers, access points and DSL modems are an integral part of today’s home and small office networks.

In 2010 we noted a decline in the number of players in the fake antivirus market, and as a result, fewer counterfeit programs used to distribute fake antivirus products

A host of events took place in the world of IT threats during the first quarter of 2011.

Cybercriminals like to register domain names that are very similar to actual, well known domain names but with one or more letters changed. In many cases a potential victim will mistype a letter and in this way arrives at a fake Web site instead of the original one.

Modern game consoles are not only dedicated to gaming anymore, they rather offer a great variety of entertainment and many methods.

The first Top Twenty lists malicious programs, adware and potentially unwanted programs that were detected and neutralized when accessed for the first time, i.e. by the on-access scanner.

This malware rating is compiled from data generated by the Kaspersky Security Network (KSN)

We’ve had a number of people contacting us with queries about ‘Kaspersky Lab Antivirus Online’ after their computer showed them the ransom message.

And now we’ve got a sort of three-in-one, a nasty little program called Trojan.Win32.KillProc.am.

It is more than 20 years since the first PC virus appeared. Since then, the nature of threats has changed significantly