Kaspersky’s fed up with Windows Defender, complains to Russia and EU
Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab accuses Microsoft of using its in-built Windows Defender to block rival security products.
Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab accuses Microsoft of using its in-built Windows Defender to block rival security products.
Over the past year the number of machines hit by ransomware that encrypts all or part of the hard drive is five-and-a-half times what it was the year before, according to Kaspersky Lab.
Tim Greene | 01 Jul | Read more
Security firm FireEye says that ransomware variants made up over 70 percent of all malware that its products detected in March.
Information-security vendors have put their strong support behind a new national effort to boost science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education, with six strong IT-security brands actively supporting the top-down effort to increase student interest and participation in STEM-related career pathways.
David Braue | 17 Nov | Read more
IT security experts say allegations that Kaspersky Labs fed false anti-virus intelligence to its rivals threatens to undermine trust the security software industry depends on.
Andrew Colley | 24 Aug | Read more
Eugene Kaspersky has a theory about why the hackers who created the Duqu 2.0 malware : They wanted intelligence.
Ken Mingis | 12 Jun | Read more
The Russian Interior Ministry has arrested the alleged leader a gang operating the Svpeng Android banking malware and ransomware aimed at English speaking targets.
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IDG News Service staff | 16 Feb | Read more
Malware authors continued to outpace security vendors in the second half of 2014, releasing so many and so varied malware strains that in some months security tools from major vendors did not detect any of the malware they were presented with, according to the results of eThreatz automated malware testing.
David Braue | 15 Jan | Read more
Malware believed to be part of a nation-state espionage campaign and reminiscent of previous attacks has been caught targeting mobile devices and PCs of executives, diplomats and military.
Symantec has revealed details about a family of malware it says is a “top tier” espionage tool with sophisticated features on a level comparable with Flame and Stuxnet.
Symantec and Kaspersky Lab are both denying that China has banned their products, amid media reports that the country is shutting out foreign security vendors from selling to government agencies.
Michael Kan | 05 Aug | Read more
Australians are the third most-frequent victims of a new infection vector for 'Koler' ransomware, which emerged in April and was targeting both mobile and PC users with 'Australianised' content until it began uninstalling itself from infected mobiles this week.
David Braue | 29 Jul | Read more
Australians were the fifth most-frequent victims of ransomware schemes over the past year but stayed out of the top 20 most at-risk countries for Web-based malware infections overall, according to new figures from security firm Kaspersky Labs.
David Braue | 23 Dec | Read more
Over 100,000 new individual malware routines for mobile devices were detected in 2013 by the cloud-based Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) alone, according to recently released statistics from the security vendor that highlight the magnitude of the current online threat and its future potential growth.
David Braue | 20 Dec | Read more