Tag: Kaspersky Lab
Kaspersky Lab’s Threat Intelligence Bags Cybersecurity for IT Services Award
Media Releae: KASPERSKY Lab announced earlier today, June 3, the latest accolade its Threat Intelligence Service has received from Singapore Business Review (SBR) Technology Excellence Awards 2019. The global cybersecurity company’s enterprise service has risen to the top as it earns this year’s Cybersecurity for IT Services award. Stephan Neumeier, managing director for Asia Pacific […]
Scammers Target Job Seekers with Sophisticated Money Stealing Scheme
Media Release: KASPERSKY Lab experts detected a blast of sophisticated spam emails in the first quarter of 2019, featuring fake job offers that seemed to come from HR recruiters in large corporations that traditionally attract a lot of interest from potential employees. However, the emails actually came from spammers and installed money-stealing malware on users’ […]
Incident Response: 5 Key Factors CISOs Should Consider When Building This Process
Media Release: By Maxim Frolov, Vice President of Global Sales at Kaspersky Lab AS attacks become more sophisticated and frequent, 86% of CISOs agree that cyber-incidents within their companies are inevitable. So, it comes as no surprise that the majority (76%) believe the speed and quality of incident response (IR) are the most important factors […]
Sophisticated Spyware Hits WhatsApp; Facebook Patches Vulnerabilities
Media Release: A recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in the world’s most popular messenger — WhatsApp — allowed hackers to eavesdrop on users, read their encrypted chats, turn on the microphone and camera, and install spyware that allows even further surveillance, such as browsing through the victim’s photos and videos, accessing their contact list, and so […]
Hacker Fin7 Takes Revenge After Leaders’ Arrest, Targets 130 Firms
Media Release: FOLLOWING the arrest in 2018 of a number of suspected leaders of the notorious Fin7/Carbanak cyber-gang, the group was believed to have disbanded. \ But Kaspersky Lab researchers have detected a number of new attacks by the same groups using GRIFFON malware. According to the company’s experts, Fin7 might have extended the number […]
Kaspersky: Cybercriminals Using Avengers for Phishing to Scam Moviegoers
Media Release: THE release of the finale of the epic two-part movie featuring the Avengers has attracted lots of attention, shattering box office records. Kaspersky Lab’s content filtering experts have found that cybercriminals could not resist the urge to use the movie for fraud and money theft. To do so, they have created no less […]
Kaspersky Lab Detects, Blocks 31.8-M Internet Threats in PH in 2018
Media Release: RECENT data from Kaspersky Lab show that close to 32 million internet-borne threats were detected and blocked by Kaspersky Lab among its users in the Philippines in 2018, setting out a growth of over 200 percent from 2017. Internet threats and malicious hosting incidents remain the top two attacks that the cybersecurity company […]
Kaspersky Says 1-in-3 Internet Users Has No Clue About Privacy Security
Media Release: HAVE internet users developed what is called “digital privacy fatigue” amid increasing concerns on data breaches? If yes, then a surely is a concern. Here’s what Kaspersky Lab has to say about digital privacy fatigue, and how to avoid being a victim of data theft: With the amount of personal data shared on […]
Genesis Dark Net, e-Shop for over 60,000 Stolen, Legitimate Identities — Kaspersky Lab
Media Release: KASPERSKY Lab has published the results of an investigation into Genesis — an e-shop that is trading over 60,000 stolen and legitimate digital identities, making successful credit card fraud much easier to conduct. This marketplace as well as other malicious tools involve abusing the machine-learning based anti-fraud approach of “digital masks” — unique, […]
Kaspersky Lab Holds Security Analyst Summit in Singapore to Build Pool of Experts
Media Release: IN an effort to give back to the security research community, global cybersecurity company Kaspersky Lab is announcing the introduction of the newest component of its annual Security Analyst Summit (SAS) that aims to provide the next generation of security leaders with a unique platform for information exchange with experts from the industry. […]