trojans

The CryptoShuffler Trojan does its utmost to go unnoticed, stealing Bitcoins on the sly.

Android users have the largest selection of mobile apps, but that means they are also exposed to the most threats. Avoid mobile malware by following some basic security rules.

Android Trojans have been mimicking banking apps, messengers, and social apps for a while. Taxi-booking apps are next on the list.

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

Global IT security problems like the recent Petya attack are of clear concern to large corporations — but they affect common people as well.

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

The outbreak of Trojan ransomware WannaCry has already caused a heap of trouble to all kinds of businesses. However, we expect that companies whose infrastructures employ embedded systems are feeling particularly unhappy

By now, everyone has heard about the WannaCry ransomware attack. So far we have two posts about it: one with a general overview of what happened, and another with advice for businesses. But

The unprecedented outbreak of Trojan ransomware WannaCry has created a worldwide plague affecting home users and businesses. We have already posted some basics about WannaCry, and in this post we will

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

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

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

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

Ransomware has probably earned more posts on the Kaspersky Daily Blog than any other type of threat. Frankly, we’ve posted so many articles, pieces of advice, tips, and tricks, that

We talk and talk (and talk) about how to behave — and even how to survive — in the digital world. And we hope it’s not in vain, that our

We often advise Android users to download apps from official app stores only. It is much more secure to search for apps on Google Play because all apps in the

For centuries, advertising was fundamentally unidirectional. A company blasted out advertising and the public — actually, not a very predictable portion of the public — received it. That’s still the

We frequently advise you to update your operating system and software on a regular basis: Vulnerabilities, unless patched in time, can be exploited by malware. Well, a curious piece of

Sometimes Android users have to download murky apps from Google Play. By “murky” we mean unfamiliar apps, apps from small publishers, and so forth — not the likes of Evernote,

Recently, English- and Russian-speaking people were attacked with a new ransomware Trojan called Ded Cryptor. It’s voracious, demanding a whopping 2 bitcoins (about $1,300) as ransom. Unfortunately, no decryption solution