Press Releases
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May 25, 2023Kaspersky recently analyzed what digital superstitions Internet users in the META region believe in nowadays and investigated whether there are grounds for these beliefs.
May 16, 2023 At the annual Cyber Security Weekend – META 2023, the details of Kaspersky’s recent initiative on Darknet incidents monitoring were revealed. When detecting a cybersecurity incident related to corporate data compromised on the Dark web, whether it...
May 11, 2023 Industrial control systems (ICS) are used to run modern critical infrastructure, including energy stations and nuclear power plants. These objects operate at constant risk of being cyberattacked. According to the statistics from Kaspersky ICS CERT...
May 9, 2023 Deepfake creation tools and services can be found on darknet marketplaces. These services offer generative AI video creation for a variety of purposes, including fraud, blackmail, and stealing confidential data. The prices for creating or purchasing...
May 8, 2023 During the annual Cyber Security Weekend 2023 for the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa which was recently held in Almaty, Kazakhstan Kaspersky researchers announced the discovery of a series of attacks by a new malware supposedly developed by the...
October 10, 2022 In the first half of 2022 in the Middle East, computers in the industrial control systems (ICS) environment were attacked using multiple means. Malicious objects were blocked on every third (36%) ICS computer in the region that was protected by...
October 9, 2022 According to Kaspersky’s Financial Cyberthreats report, attacks are becoming increasingly corporate rather than consumer focused. As it’s seen from Kaspersky Security Network, financial threat detections targeting businesses were growing in the...
October 3, 2022 In mid-2021, Kaspersky researchers discovered a wave of new attacks by the Middle Eastern Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group, DeftTorero, also popularly dubbed as the Volatile Cedar. First detected in 2012, the APT group has been actively...
August 18, 2022 Kaspersky researchers have analyzed what risks innocent-looking browser extensions pose to users and the activities of cybercriminals hiding threats under add-ons. In the first half of 2022, more than 10,000 users were affected by threats, hiding in...
August 4, 2022 Kaspersky analysis has revealed that attacks related to data loss threats (phishing and scam/social engineering) increased significantly in Q2 2022 at 230% in comparison with the previous quarter in the UAE – the company’s security solutions have...
July 27, 2022 According to the Kaspersky Digital Payment survey, 57% of respondents from Saudi Arabia faced phishing scams when using online banking or mobile wallet services. 46% have personally encountered fake websites, and 58% — scams (via texts or calls)...
September 19, 2018 When a data breach strikes, the damage can reach further than a business’s finances, reputation, and customer privacy. A breach can also severely impact the careers of individuals at the company involved. According to
August 2, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a new wave of financial spear-phishing emails designed to make money for cybercriminals.
July 26, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have examined the security of 13 car sharing applications from household manufacturers across the globe – including those from Russia, the US and Europe.
July 22, 2018Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered the distribution of an unusual fraudulent scheme that tricks users into parting with their time and their data, for no return.
July 20, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have found a new crypto-currency miner – PowerGhost – which has hit corporate networks in several regions, mostly in Latin America.
July 8, 2018 Kaspersky Lab researchers have helped uncover a number of unknown vulnerabilities that have left gas stations around the world exposed to remote takeover, often for years. The vulnerabilities were found in an embedded gas station controller of which...
May 24, 2018Exploits, software that takes advantage of a bug or vulnerability, for Microsoft Office in-the-wild hit the list of cyber headaches in Q1 2018.
May 20, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have discovered a new variant of the SynAck ransomware Trojan using the Doppelgänging technique to bypass anti-virus security by hiding in legitimate processes.
April 4, 2018Kaspersky Lab’s researchers have discovered that more and more cyber criminals are turning their attention to malicious software that is mining cryptocurrencies at the expense of users’ mobile devices.
March 15, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have revealed that the group behind the Prilex point-of-sale malware can now turn stolen credit card data into functional plastic cards.
March 10, 2018 Kaspersky Lab researchers have uncovered a sophisticated threat used for cyber-espionage in the Middle East and Africa from at least 2012 until February 2018. The malware, which researchers have called ‘Slingshot’, attacks and infects victims...
March 10, 2018Kaspersky Lab researchers have observed that the Russian-speaking threat actor Sofacy, also known as APT28 or Fancy Bear is shifting its targeting to the Far East.
March 9, 2018A new attribution method helped Kaspersky Lab to identify a very sophisticated false flag.