Threats

Even if you follow all the Cardinal Rules of system security — you regularly update your operating system and programs, avoid spam like the plague and never click through on suspicious

Security professionals and enthusiasts are aware of rootkits, but general audiences typically don’t know about this kind of malware, which is specifically designed to hide itself and its activity in

APT stands for advanced persistent threat. It became famous following a New York Times exposé detailing a month’s long attack campaign in which a Chinese military unit now known as

If Achilles’s heel was his vulnerability in the Iliad, then Paris’s poison tipped arrow was the exploit. Quite literally, an exploit is the device or – more often than not

Botnet is the generic name given to any collection of compromised PCs controlled by an attacker remotely — think “virtual robot army.” The individual PCs that are part of a

Today’s advanced malware tools often comprise several different components, each with a different job description. These programs are more like Swiss army knives rather than individual tools, giving the attacker

Kaspersky Lab experts have discovered a new trojan virus attacking skype users. Find out how to recognize it before you fall victim.

Rootkits have been around for nearly 20 years now, allowing attackers to get access to and steal data from users’ machines without being detected for long periods of time. The

No one likes malware. In fact, pretty much everyone hates it. But it’s not the worst problem facing the world right now either. The problems in the online world pale

Most people are aware that there is a seemingly infinite sea of hackers out there whose goal in life is to steal sensitive data from corporate networks. And while tomes

Botnets are large networks of computers that spread malware across the Internet. In order to do that, botnets need to acquire large volumes of IP addresses for their malicious machines.

Hackers spent much of 2012 laying the groundwork for what they have in store for not only big business and strategic government and military targets, but consumers as well in

It’s a common belief that Macs are safer than PCs because most computer viruses are designed to attack Windows machines and not Macs. Recent high-profile Mac-targeted viruses like MacDefender and

Scareware is the catch-all name used for any of the numerous programs that weasel their way into computers and then pepper users with frightening pop-ups telling them their systems have

It used to be that Mac users could rest easy, knowing that the vast majority of computer viruses were written to target Windows users, which makes sense given that the

If you own an Android device, your phone could soon be used against you. Research released in late September introduced a new tool that targets Android devices by taking control

Ryan Naraine interviews Kaspersky Lab Chief Technology Officer, Nikolay Grebennikov about malicious threats on mobile devices. Grebennikov talks about the taxonomy of threats and explains Kaspersky lab’s vision for protecting