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10 April 2019
Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team Recognized in SC Media’s 30th Anniversary Awards
Kaspersky Lab has been recognized in SC Media’s 30th Anniversary Awards, receiving an award for the Most Important Discoveries by a Company Research Team. This award, recognizing the company’s Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) for its discovery and investigation of the Carbanak cyber-gang, demonstrates the significant contribution Kaspersky Lab has made to global threat research over the last two decades.
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5 April 2019
Kaspersky Lab opens new Transparency Center in Madrid and conducts independent legal assessment of Russian legislation related to data-processing
Kaspersky Lab is opening a Transparency Center in Madrid, which in addition to a similar center opened in 2018 in Zurich, will serve as a trusted facility for the company’s partners and government stakeholders to come and check source code of the company’s products. In addition to being a code review facility, the new center will function as a briefing center where guests will be able to learn more about Kaspersky Lab’s engineering and data processing practices. The center will open for its first visitors in June.
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25 March 2019
Operation ShadowHammer: new supply chain attack threatens hundreds of thousands of users worldwide
Kaspersky Lab has uncovered a new advanced persistent threat (APT) campaign that has affected a large number of users through what is known as a supply chain attack. Our research found that threat actors behind Operation ShadowHammer have targeted users of the ASUS Live Update Utility, by injecting a backdoor into it at least between June and November 2018. Kaspersky Lab experts estimate that the attack may have affected more than a million users worldwide.
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13 March 2019
Kaspersky Lab uncovers Windows zero-day exploited by recently discovered threat actor
Kaspersky Lab’s automated technologies have detected a new exploited vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, believed to have been used in targeted attacks by at least two threat actors, including the recently discovered SandCat. This is the fourth zero-day exploit to be discovered in the wild by Kaspersky Lab’s Automatic Exploit Prevention technology. Kaspersky Lab reported the vulnerability, allocated CVE-2019-0797 to Microsoft, which has released a patch.
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6 March 2019
The number of mobile malware attacks doubles in 2018, as cybercriminals sharpen their distribution strategies
Kaspersky Lab researchers have seen the number of attacks using malicious mobile software nearly double in just a year. In 2018 there were 116.5 million attacks, compared to 66.4 million in 2017, with a significant increase in unique users being affected. Despite more devices being attacked, the number of malware files has decreased, leading researchers to conclude that the quality of mobile malware has become more impactful and precise. These and other findings are unveiled in Kaspersky Lab's report Mobile malware evolution 2018.
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21 February 2019
Kaspersky Lab announces 4% revenue growth to $726 million in 2018
Kaspersky Lab continued to deliver stable growth in 2018 and increased its global unaudited IFRS revenue to a total of USD 726 million*, representing a 4% YOY revenue increase. During a year of evolving market conditions and continuous geopolitical pressure, the company achieved success as a result of the trust customers and partners place in the company and its leading cybersecurity solutions and services.
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5 February 2019
AV-TEST Finds Kaspersky Safe Kids a Top Choice for Protecting Children from Online Dangers
Kaspersky Safe Kids found highly effective at preventing children from accessing inappropriate content, being groomed online and more. To help parents protect their children’s safety on the internet, independent software assessor AV-TEST has evaluated a number of parental control software solutions, and has awarded Kaspersky Safe Kids with three “Approved” certificates.
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