Kaspersky scores in AV-Comparatives test

Kaspersky Internet Security 2014, the security product for home users, was the top performer in the Malware Removal Test conducted by the independent AV-Comparatives lab in October and November 2013. The test assessed how well security products could help a computer...

Kaspersky signs deal with TSB Sugar RSA

Kaspersky Lab has signed a three-year deal with TSB Sugar RSA – one of the largest sugar producers in South Africa. With the assistance from Pronto Solutions Distributor, 1 200 endpoints will now be protected by Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business, with...

Snowden influences 2014 security forecasts

Kaspersky Lab’s experts have released their predictions for 2014, and many of them are connected to the fall-out from Edward Snowden’s revelations. End user forecast – cybercriminals will target: * Your privacy – after the Snowden scandal of 2013, people...
Malware booms in 2013

Malware booms in 2013

The overall global Internet threat level grew by 6,9 percentage points in 2013 – with 41,6% of  computers being the victim of an attack at least once. In order to conduct all these attacks over the Internet in 2013, cybercriminals used 10 604 273 unique hosts, which...

New malware under the Christmas tree

Kaspersky Lab has recorded several thousand attempts to infect computers used for online banking with a malicious program that its creators claim can attack “any bank in any country”. The Neverquest Trojan banker supports just about every possible trick used to bypass...