Kaspersky Lab

Man-made disaster: half of cybersecurity incidents in industrial networks happen due to employee errors

Despite automation, the human factor can still put industrial processes at risk: employee errors or unintentional actions were behind 52% of...

Sunday 25 August 2019

Kaspersky releases documentary about the hunt for the Carbanak group

Tomorrow Unlocked, the online magazine for digital culture created by Kaspersky, has released a brand-new, free four-part documentary that tells the...

Thursday 22 August 2019

Tricking a trickster: Kaspersky patented sandbox that adapts to malware behavior on the fly

Kaspersky has received a patent (US10339301) from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a technology designed to simplify the detection...

Monday 19 August 2019

Kaspersky helps eliminate critical vulnerabilities in smart home controller

Kaspersky researchers investigating the control device for an active smart home ecosystem have identified several critical vulnerabilities. These...

Sunday 04 August 2019

Threat actors muddy waters in Middle East with APT hijacks and fake leaks during Q2

Advanced persistent threat (APT) activity in the second three months of 2019 included a number of operations targeting or originating in the Middle...

Thursday 01 August 2019

Light but enterprise-ready: Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security now simplifies large-scale deployment of protection for virtualization

A new version of Kaspersky Security for Virtualization Light Agent, part of Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security, responds to enterprises’ demand for...

Tuesday 30 July 2019

Blockchain-based online voting on the rise — with students and local communities leading the way

People from all over the world, speaking 34 languages, use the internet and blockchain for making joint decisions and everyday choices. Analysis of...

Sunday 28 July 2019

Striking a digital balance among children this summer

With schools out for the summer, parents across the region are looking for ways to keep their children engaged and entertained, and the peak summer...

Wednesday 24 July 2019

Head in the clouds: humans cause nine out of ten data breaches in the cloud

Incidents in public cloud infrastructure are more likely to happen because of a customer’s employees rather than actions carried out by cloud...

Tuesday 16 July 2019

Kaspersky extends cooperation with INTERPOL in joint fight against cybercrime

Kaspersky, a global cybersecurity company, and INTERPOL have signed a new five-year agreement to reinforce their collaboration in the fight against...

Wednesday 03 July 2019

47% of people in the META region would give up social media to guarantee lifetime data privacy, Kaspersky’s study says

Kaspersky’s recent report ‘the true value of digital privacy: are consumers selling themselves short?’ has revealed that 47% consumers would give up...

Sunday 30 June 2019

Kaspersky Internet Security for Android enables machine learning technology to protect against advanced threats

Kaspersky Internet Security for Android has been strengthened with a new feature for combating the evolving malware landscape – Cloud ML for Android...

Thursday 27 June 2019

Don’t get swept up: the number of users lured into installing scam cleaners doubled in a year to almost 1.5 million

Kaspersky experts have detected a two-fold rise in the number of users being attacked with fake system cleaners – fraudulent programs designed to...

Sunday 23 June 2019

PLATINUM is back – hacking group uses steganography to fly under security radar

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a highly sophisticated cyberespionage campaign aimed at stealing information from South Asian diplomatic,...

Thursday 20 June 2019

Kaspersky EDR and Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack enhanced with unique Indicators of Attack and mapping to MITRE ATT&CK to empower and simplify investigation process

The latest versions of Kaspersky EDR and Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack offer new features that simplify the investigation process and enhance threat...

Sunday 16 June 2019

Office whispers are inevitable: four out of ten employees accidentally found colleagues’ salary at work

As the saying goes, “data is money”. Sometimes it literally is — for example, when one bumps into a spreadsheet with their colleagues’ salaries in it...

Thursday 13 June 2019

Number of malicious mobile banker packages circulating online grew by 58% in Q1 2019

Kaspersky researchers have uncovered a worrying rise in malware designed to steal credentials and money from users’ bank accounts: in Q1 2019,...

Tuesday 11 June 2019

Building a safer world with Kaspersky: The company unveils new branding and visual identity

For more than two decades, Kaspersky Lab has been offering the best security solutions to customers in pursuit of its mission to save the world. As...

Monday 10 June 2019

Tourist traps: phishers and spammers lurk behind thousands of fake flight and accommodation offers

Kaspersky Lab researchers tracking the activity of malicious spammers and phishers have uncovered multiple operations during May seeking to exploit...

Sunday 09 June 2019

Kaspersky Lab report finds 64% of UAE employees hide social media activity from their boss

With 90% of people in employment going online several times a day, it can be hard for most workers to keep their private and work-life separate...

Thursday 30 May 2019