Kaspersky Lab, threat management solutions company, announced a significant growth in sales in 2011. According to management, company revenues shot up 14% worldwide, reaching US$612 million. “2011 has been extremely challenging for the entire IT security industry. Despite tackling an evergrowing array of complex new threats in difficult market conditions, Kaspersky Lab has successfully achieved [...]
Two thousand Trojan bankers are detected on unique users’ computers every day. That’s according to Kaspersky Security Network data over the last three months. Kaspersky add 780 signatures daily for new malicious programs targetting private financial information. That is 1.1% of their total malware added to their database daily. In January, Kaspersky Lab experts discovered [...]
IT security and data protection company Sophos today unveiled its latest Security Threat Report 2012, a detailed assessment of the threat landscape – from hacktivism and online threats to mobile malware, cloud computing and social network security, as well as IT security trends for this coming year. A Sophos poll, conducted online at the end [...]
Cybercrime has come a long way. Originally, it was mainly a digital form of vandalism, but has developed into a criminal business enterprise operated for financial gain. Cybercrime is now worth billions. AVG Technologies, a provider of internet and mobile security, today presented the AVG Community Powered Threat Report – Q4 2011. Providing insight, background [...]
Kaspersky Lab has announced the publication of its spam report for December 2011. The last month of the year was predictably quiet – compared to November the share of spam in email traffic fell 4.4% and averaged 76.2% for the month. The lull in business in the run-up to the holidays means botnets are hamstrung [...]
After the 2010 cybercrime turning point, when spam levels started to decline for the first time, this trend continued throughout 2011, a trend that can be explained mainly by several key botnet takedowns throughout the last two years. However, the number of vulnerabilities increased; there are fewer widespread attacks but greater numbers of smaller, more [...]
Avast! Anti-virus, with over 165 million users worldwide, announced that their hugely-popular anti-virus and anti-malware programs are now available to users of Android smartphones. “You asked for it and here it is … avast! Free Mobile Security, the new app for your Android phone. Before we launched avast! Free Mobile Security, a poll of avast! [...]
From Hacktivism to Mac Malware, 2011 has been a year full of IT security incidents. Kaspersky Lab’s experts have picked out the key trends of the past 12 months and highlighted the major new features on the security landscape. Looking at these stories gives us an idea of what we can expect in 2012. According [...]
Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its IT Threat Evolution report for the third quarter of 2011. The company’s analysts noted a continued growth in cyber-attacks against some of the world’s biggest corporations throughout the period. When it comes to attacking smartphones, there were clear signs that cybercriminals have made Android their platform of choice. [...]
Kaspersky Lab has announced that details of threats detected by the company’s cloud technologies are now available to all those interested in IT security. The first-hand statistics come from Kaspersky Security Network (KSN), a distributed ‘cloud’ system that monitors and reacts immediately to computer threats. The network currently has about 50 million computers feeding the [...]
With the festive season around the corner, many consumers will be looking to beat the Christmas shopping rush by shopping online. While this is a fast, effective and convenient way to purchase holiday gifts, it can be hazardous for those that are inadequately protected against online fraud. A recent worldwide survey of computer users from [...]