Threats

Adult content is an ace in the hole for cybercriminals attacking Android devices.

While you’re watching YouTube, someone might just be using your device to mine cryptocurrency.

The cryptomining boom is helping scammers make money out of thin air. The latest method involves fake currency and ransomware.

Sex sells, as they say in advertising. In cyberspace porn serves as one of the most popular tools for malicious activity.

If someone offers cryptocurrency for nothing, remember the only free cheese is in a mousetrap. Here’s what’s really going on.

People put a lot of time, effort, and money into the online games they love. And yet many of them don’t bother to protect their gaming accounts properly.

Many people assume that an HTTPS connection means that the site is secure. In fact, HTTPS is increasingly being used by malicious sites, especially phishing ones.

The Skygofree Trojan comes with a powerful array of spyware features, some unique — like turning on audio recording by geolocation and stealing private messages.

Xiaomi’s robotic vacuum cleaner was hacked by security researchers. However, it proved much more secure than most other smart devices.

Hacked programs freely distributed online are found to be equipped with a hidden NiceHash cryptocurrency miner.

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.

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