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Living online is more comfortable than ever — do you really still need a helmet?

Major pain: Critical infrastructure objects are among ExPetr’s (also known as NotPetya) victims.

Just a few hours ago, a global ransomware outbreak began, and it looks to be as big as the WannaCry story that broke not so long ago.

A lot of ads on the Internet promote easy ways to earn money. They tend to lead to fishy places — say, a post from an alleged mother of three

A few days ago saw the beginning of the Trojan encryptor WannaCry outbreak. It appears to be pandemic — a global epidemic. We counted more than 45,000 cases of the

If you’ve been following along on our blogs or our social media accounts, you probably know that we take a lot of pride in our annual conference, The SAS, hosted by Kaspersky

Last week at Kaspersky Lab’s Security Analyst Summit (the SAS), there was a lot of cool research that made you think. Although a lot of talks centered on deep APT research and

Back in 2015, a 47-year-old man from the Netherlands became one of the first people to be diagnosed with “digital hoarding disorder.” The man took thousands of digital pictures daily and

Last week, a coworker shared an interesting article with me from the BBC. It reported that Germans were being told to destroy a connected children’s toy because of hacking concerns.

In the movie Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000), viewers follow the humorous tale of two guys who partied a bit too hard trying to remember where they parked their car. We’ve all

No one expects ransomware — until it happens. If you think it’ll never hit you, consider this: According to Kaspersky Lab data, last year ransomware hit a new victim every

People truly enjoy the perks of the digital era and tend to shop and pay online or via mobile banking. Research commissioned by Kaspersky Lab confirmed that the majority of users (81%)

People post photos of their tickets online. Why shouldn’t they? Instagram alone contains thousands of images showing concert, airplane, and even lottery tickets. If everyone does it, why shouldn’t you?

As a tradition, at the end of the year our GReAT cybersecurity experts publish their predictions for the upcoming year. Let’s see which of last year’s predictions came true and then try

One of the most important pieces of advice on cybersecurity is that you should never input logins, passwords, credit card information, and so forth, if you think the page URL

Some physical viruses and parasites behave a lot like electronic viruses — or is it the other way around? Viruses take control of their hosts and use them to reproduce

This post is intended for people who either never heard of ransomware or knew about it but didn’t really pay attention. We will explain in practical, down-to-earth language what ransomware

You’ve probably heard the word botnet more than once recently, and that’s hardly surprising. Any connected device can be zombified — turned into a part of a botnet. These include

This past weekend, November 26 and 27, people traveling on the San Francisco Municipal Railway were surprised to find out that they didn’t have to pay for their rides. Everyone

Imagine that your computer suddenly shows you a disturbing message: “It’s FBI. Illegal content has been detected on your device. You’ll be arrested for 20 years and fined for $200,000

In February 2016, another new strain of ransomware hit the scene, its name akin to what many victims feel when they are hit with ransomware – Crysis. Over the past