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Ransomware is a kind of malware that steals users’ files and exacts a ransom from its victims. The most effective approach is to encrypt the files and offer decryption keys

Much has been said about the VENOM vulnerability, the latest in an increasingly long line of bugs affecting vast swaths of the Internet. It’s an old-school bug of the relatively

he Chinese-language Naikon advanced persistent threat group is targeting military, government and civil organizations located in and around the South China Sea, which is an increasingly contentious hot-bed of territorial

When you look at airplanes moving on a map, using some tracking service like Flightradar24, you get the feeling it’s sheer Brownian motion. It may look like an abundance of aircrafts

Today we will relate a Kaspersky Lab implantation experiment to a comprehensible, and culturally relevant concept – the use of Jedi Force™. This might surprise you, but with the current

Updated: Current principles for the processing of user data by Kaspersky Lab security solutions and technologies can be found here. While the cloud-based security approach is not a novelty, it’s

Yesterday my favorite part of Kaspersky Lab — which is certainly the lab itself – grew, as we have opened our first European Research Center. It will be home to

In yet another example of smart medical device insecurity, it has emerged recently that a line of Hospira drug pumps are exposed to a series of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities that

The so-called book cipher has always been in favor with authors of spy novels and detective stories, who usually try to mimic reality but are not ready to feed hardcore

Everyone has heard of the German cipher machine called Enigma, mostly due to the fact its story fascinates all kinds of writers and filmmakers – most recently in the Oscar-nominated

It’s curious how the tone of the discussion has been changing since the topic of driverless cars first received traction in the media. This time last year, the majority of debates centered around

A group of academic security researchers remotely hacked and took control of a robot designed to perform telesurgery, according to the MIT Technology Review. Telesurgery — perhaps better known as remote

We are living in a fascinating era when the technologies which seemed like they were from science fiction are entering our everyday lives. Or, at least, they’re making the first

Yet another APT of the ‘Dukes family’ is hitting high-profile targets, including the US government office. This time it’s CozyDuke, also known as CozyBear, CozyCar or “Office Monkeys” in honor

Information security is the cornerstone and essence of Israel. It was given serious attention long before the term of information security emerged in its traditional meaning in the 21st century.

SAN FRANCISCO — It’s an utterly played out platitude that the security industry is largely failing at its mission to protect computers and networks and all the nearly infinite data

Recently the United States Government Accountability Office published a report warning the Federal Aviation Administration that aviation faces cybersecurity challenges in “at least three areas”, including the protection of aircraft avionics used to

According to a survey conducted by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International over a 12-month period, 22% of parents polled indicated that their children were affected by cyber incidents. Examples of these

Hello there! Usually, I write about topics concerning technical support or problem-solving, but not this time – though it will be relevant to the cybersecurity world. Today’s post concerns phone fraud.

World nations are building fleets of unmanned robotic boats to perform missions above, on and under the water. Though there are only a few hundred unmanned maritime vessels in operation

Big data techniques are used to solve numerous problems: to cure rare diseases, catch poachers in India or find the best time to top trees in New York. Insurance agencies