Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Kaspersky.
Kaspersky's antivirus software made it possible for websites to track users for many years. The software injected JavaScript code on every website in every browser on a test laptop. The German journalist Ronald Eikenberg discovered this from ct. The JavaScript also contained an ID number that was... Read more
5 years ago
The ransomware Sodin uses a zero day leak in Windows to obtain access rights to infected systems. In addition, it uses the CPU architecture to prevent detection. According to Kaspersky researchers, this is hardly ever the case with ransomware. The Sodin malware is a Ransomware-as-a-Service, which me... Read more
5 years ago
Researchers from cybersecurity company Kaspersky have discovered that the number of cases of so-called 'hoax system cleaners' has doubled over the past year, according to the company to Techzine. In the first half of this year, 1,456,219 PC users worldwide, including the Dutch and Belgians, were aff... Read more
5 years ago
Kaspersky and the Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center have started a collaboration to train cosmonauts and IT specialists in the field of cyber security. The Gagarin Research and Test Cosmonaut Training Center is an institute in Star City, Russia, where cosmonauts from all over the ... Read more
5 years ago
In 2017, the news sounded that criminals had managed to install an advanced backdoor on certain Android devices, even before they had left the factories. Now, almost two years later, this is also confirmed by Google itself. The backdoor in question is Triada, a malware that was uncovered by Kaspersk... Read more
5 years ago
The number of DDoS attacks increased by 967 percent in the first quarter of this year compared to the same period last year. These were attacks with a size of 100 Gbps and above, of which the largest was 587 Gbps. That's what Neustar's report says. During a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attac... Read more
5 years ago
A bug in the Windows kernel is actively exploited in cyber attacks to completely take over an affected system. The zero-day leak was discovered and patched by Microsoft last week. The leak was discovered by Kaspersky Lab researchers and was also abused in the wild before Microsoft was notified. The ... Read more
5 years ago
The Russian security company Kaspersky Lab believes that there is little chance that the American government will lift the ban on the use of its antivirus software by federal institutions. CEO Eugene Kaspersky states that the situation only makes cybercriminals "happy". "Unless the political situat... Read more
5 years ago
Kaspersky has unveiled a new threat intelligence service to help security management better understand threat intelligence. This is CyberTrace, which brings together data feeds to help organisations identify threats. This should allow them to focus on what is most important for their specific organi... Read more
5 years ago
Since the Wannacry attack, everyone knows what ransomware is, and companies are trying to protect themselves. Less well known are cryptominers, although infections with such malware are ten times more common. Cryptominers infected ten times more companies than ransomware in 2018. Check Point conclud... Read more
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