As we saw from the statistics, tech giants that collect and analyze data to show us targeted advertising are present practically everywhere in the world. And it is these companies that store the most data about people from all over the planet. Read Full Article
Since 2008, cyber-criminals have been creating malware to attack IoT-devices. How do we deal with that? The best option for tracking attacks, catching malware and getting an overview of attacks in this area is to use honeypots. Read Full Article
In April 2019, we discovered new malware that compromises encrypted web communications in an impressive way. We called these new modules ‘Reductor’ after a .pdb path left in some samples. Read Full Article
Cryptocurrency mining is an energy-intensive business. According to some estimates, Bitcoin miners consume the same amount of energy as the Czech Republic. Read Full Article
For the second summer straight, we cover the children’s interests during the period when they have enough leisure to give themselves full time to their hobbies. Read Full Article
This report covers our team’s incident response practices for the year 2018. We have thoroughly analyzed all the service requests, customer conversations and incident response deliverables to provide you an overview in numbers. Read Full Article
One of the most common attack on Microsoft SQL Server — the remote attack based on malicious jobs — has been around for a long time, but it is still used to get access to workstations through less-than-strong administrator password. Read Full Article
Kaspersky solutions blocked 717,057,912 attacks launched from online resources in 203 countries across the globe, 217,843,293 unique URLs triggered Web Anti-Virus components. Read Full Article
According to Kaspersky DDoS Protection data, the second quarter of 2019 turned out to be rather less eventful than the previous one. As such, the number of attacks foiled by our protection systems fell by 44%. But at the same time, the quarter turned out to be richer than the first in terms of high-profile DDoS attacks. Read Full Article
In Q1 2019, Kaspersky Lab solutions blocked attempts to launch one or more types of malware designed to steal money from bank accounts on the computers of 243,604 users and detected attacks using miners on the computers of 1,197,066 users. Read Full Article