Threats

What miners and Web miners are, why you need to protect yourself, and how Kaspersky Lab products can assist

The new Loapi Trojan will recruit your smartphone for DDoS attacks, bombard it with ads, or use it to mine cryptocurrency, making it red-hot.

A new study by Kaspersky Lab showed how insecure smart devices really are. We explain how to cope.

Guess the villain — was it hackers or wild animals?

Attackers pretending to be acquaintances asking for money — the story is old, the approaches new. We show you how to avoid the e-bait.

This versatile mobile banking Trojan morphs into ransomware on detecting a removal attempt.

The CryptoShuffler Trojan does its utmost to go unnoticed, stealing Bitcoins on the sly.

The post is being updated as our experts find new details on the malware.

We’ve already seen two large-scale ransomware attacks this year — we’re talking about the infamous WannaCry and ExPetr (also known as Petya and NotPetya). It seems that a third attack is on the rise: The new malware is called Bad Rabbit — at least, that’s the name indicated by the darknet website linked in the ransom note.

In October 2017, Kaspersky Lab initiated a thorough review of our telemetry logs in relation to alleged 2015 incidents described in the media. These are the preliminary results.

Every Wi-Fi network using WPA or WPA2 encryption is vulnerable to a key reinstallation attack. Here are some more details and means of protection.

How well do you know the world of cybersecurity?

The largest motor show in the world is the best place to see what cars will look like in the near future.

A new blocker called nRansom locks users out of their computers and demands not money, but nude pictures.

A few more tips about gaming accounts safety, or How to protect your Steam, Uplay, Origin, battle.net and so on.

Several months ago, our experts found a bunch of vulnerabilities in Android apps that allow users to control their cars remotely. What has changed since then?

A story about a large malicious campaign carried out in Facebook Messenger — and how it worked.

How mobile Trojans exploit WAP billing to steal money, and how to protect yourself.

What should you do if your antivirus detects something it calls “not-a-virus”? What kind of applications are behind this message, and what is all the fuss about?

Android Trojans have been mimicking banking apps, messengers, and social apps for a while. Taxi-booking apps are next on the list.

Black Hat 2017 demonstrated that Microsoft enterprise solutions could be quite useful in attackers’ hands.

Global IT security problems like the recent Petya attack are of clear concern to large corpora-tions — but they affect common people as well.