Press Releases
13 January 2022 With 53 million active users in the UK, social media has become the go-to for communication and self-expression, as well as a platform for securing work. With the ‘Great Resignation’ driving people to look for new employment opportunities in the New...
12 January 2022 Whether it is supply chain attacks or Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), the threat landscape for businesses is constantly evolving and becoming ever more complex. Amid this ramp-up, fresh Kaspersky findings show that the majority of UK business...
10 January 2022 New Kaspersky Safe Kids research has revealed the online content children were most interested in during autumn 2021. As for games, kids were frequently searching for Genshin Impact and Poppy Playtime. The most desired toys among kids appeared to be...
7 January 2022 Global Kaspersky research unveils that 30% of healthcare providers have experienced cases where their employees compromised customers’ personal information during remote consultations. In addition to this, almost half of providers believe that their...
21 December 2021 Kaspersky has once again been recognised as a Champion in the Canalys EMEA Channel Leadership Matrix, receiving a 93.5% satisfaction rating. This saw it rank highest among all cybersecurity vendors included in the matrix and secure the number one...
16 December 2021 From January 20 to November 10, 2021, Kaspersky experts uncovered a new piece of malware that has targeted more than 35,000 computers across 195 countries. Dubbed “PseudoManuscrypt” for its similarities with the advanced persistent threat (APT)...
15 December 2021 Kaspersky analysed anonymied data voluntarily provided by visitors of Privacy Checker, a website that contains helpful advice on privacy settings for various internet services and platforms. The results show which security settings (tight, medium,...
14 December 2021 Kaspersky has uncovered a previously unknown IIS module (a piece of software aimed at providing additional features to Microsoft web servers) they have since dubbed Owowa that steals credentials entered by a user when logging into Outlook Web Access...
13 December 2021 In 2021, Kaspersky’s detection systems discovered 380,000 malicious files per day, indicating a 5.7% increase compared to 2020. This growth correlates with the continuous rise in the number of devices used worldwide, among other factors. This is one...
10 December 2021 After the renaming of Facebook to Meta, virtual meta-universes (metaverses) have been discussed globally. International brands and even countries are planning to open their offices and implement projects in the virtual world. Over the past few...
9 December 2021 Kaspersky researchers analysed the lifecycle of phishing pages and discovered that one third of phishing pages cease to exist within a single day, making the first hours of a page's life the most dangerous for users. This is the moment when a vast...
8 December 2021 There is a positive trend in how organisations respond to cybersecurity breaches from an HR perspective, according to a recent Kaspersky study. In 2021, almost half as many organisations laid off senior IT staff (6% in 2021, compared to 8% in 2018)...
3 December 2021 According to a recent Kaspersky survey, 28% of managed service providers (MSPs) reported that a massive supply chain attack on an MSP software provider, revealed in December 2020, had affected their organisation in some way. The breach also had a...
2 December 2021 Incident response (IR) is when companies call in a team in the aftermath of a breach to limit the damage and prevent an attack from spreading. At Kaspersky, IR is handled by the Global Response Emergency Team (GERT) and is reserved for mid-size to...
30 November 2021 November 30 is celebrated as International Computer Security Day. It’s a good opportunity to recall some of the basic facts and rules of cybersecurity – to ensure a safer future. To do that, here are some key points to note about computer security...
29 November 2021 In a recent investigation, Kaspersky researchers uncovered a previously unknown malware dubbed Chinotto targeting North Korean defectors and human rights activists. The malware operated by an Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) actor ScarCruft is...
29 November 2021 Kaspersky, a leading global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, is one of the first organisations to address the challenge of the human augmentation phenomenon, by presenting a comprehensive cybersecurity policy. The document aims to enhance...
26 November 2021 Cryptocurrency is having a moment: the price of bitcoin reached another record high on November 10th, a culmination of an upswing that began after a significant drop in value in early summer. In fact, the value of cryptocurrency has steadily...
25 November 2021 The Kaspersky Employee Wellbeing 2021 report unveils that while organisations regularly face employee data leakage, almost half of them (45%) prefer not to disclose these incidents publicly. At the same time, staff may lack basic cybersecurity...
24 November 2021Ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, fresh research data into stalkerware and tech abuse suggests that the UK has the second-highest level of cyber stalking in Europe
23 November 2021 In 2022, we will observe state-sponsored groups targeting the cryptocurrency industry, while cybercriminals will take advantage of investors by fabricating rogue wallet with backdoors included. On top of that, we are likely to witness the growth of...
22 November 2021 The growth of phishing attacks mimicking e-payment pages was spotted in the run-up to the Black Friday period. The total number of financial phishing attacks disguised as e-payment systems more than doubled from September (627,560) to October 2021...
9 November 2021 The Kaspersky CyberTrace solution has been updated to include extended threat intelligence platform capabilities including alert triage, threat data analysis and incident investigation. The new paid edition integrates with all commonly used security...
8 November 2021 When compared to Q3 2020, the total number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks increased by nearly 24%, while the total number of smart attacks (advanced DDoS attacks that are often targeted) increased by 31% when compared to the same...