Web threats

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.

With privacy more often than not being traded for convenience, we believe that for many 2020 has fundamentally changed how much privacy people are willing to sacrifice in exchange for security and access to digital services.

Kaspersky solutions blocked 666,809,967 attacks launched from online resources in various countries across the world, 173,335,902 unique URLs were recognized as malicious by Web Anti-Virus.