Web threats

We take a closer look at threats linked to loss of accounts with popular video game digital distribution services, such as Steam and Origin. We also explore the kind of game-related data that ends up on the black market.

This report discusses the statistics gathered by Kaspersky Safe Kids on the websites and apps children use, and on children’s YouTube search queries in summer 2021.

In this report, you will find statistics and other information about gaming-related malware, phishing schemes and other threats in 2020 and the first half of 2021.

PC threat statistics for Q2 2021 contain data on miners, encrypting ransomware, financial malware and threats to Windows, macOS and IoT.

In this report you’ll find Kaspersky DDoS Intelligence statistics, news overview and DDoS market trends and predictions for Q2 2021.

Last year, we took a look at how the pandemic influenced the threat landscape for gamers and the gaming industry. One year later, online gamers are even more active, and cybercriminals continue to exploit this.

Dan Demeter, Senior Security Researcher with Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team and head of Kaspersky’s Honeypot project, explains what honeypots are, why they’re recommended for catching external threats, and how you can set up your own simple SSH-honeypot.

In this report we try to understand what occupied children during the last year, from May 2020 to April 2021 inclusive.

In Q1 2021, we blocked more than 2 billion attacks launched from online resources across the globe, detected 77.4M unique malicious and potentially unwanted objects, and recognized 614M unique URLs as malicious.

In the EU, 70% of user computers experienced at least one Malware-class attack, 115,452,157 web attacks and 86,584,675 phishing attempts were blocked.

In Q1 2021, we saw a spike in DDoS activity in January, peaking at over 1,800 attacks per day. The most widespread was UDP flooding (41.87%), while SYN flooding dropped to third place (26.36%).

In this article we discuss browser lockers that mimic law enforcement websites.

On the anniversary of the global shutdown, we decided to take a look back at how the threat landscape has evolved since the beginning of the pandemic — and what that means for users in the years to come.

Q4 2020 in terms of DDoS attacks: DDoS market fall, bitcion rise, careful prognoses.

We analyzed and categorized the most popular websites and search queries over the festive period (December 20, 2020 — January 10, 2021) to find out how kids compensated for the lack of outdoor winter entertainment.