Press Releases
3 February 2011 December 2010 saw a high level of malicious malware activity, with cybercriminals turning to shortened URLs as a means to direct users to infected websites, according to Kaspersky Lab following the publication of its Monthly Malware Statistics for...
3 February 2011 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, will participate in the Launch Ceremony of Ferrari's latest F1 car that will bear the Kaspersky Lab logo on its front panel throughout the 2011 Formula One racing...
2 February 2011Kaspersky Lab’s all-in-one security package, Kaspersky PURE, has received the coveted performance award in a recent PC Plus antivirus group test
21 January 2011General Atlantic becomes the second largest shareholder in the company
21 January 2011Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, warns users about a new, fast-moving Twitter worm which exploits Google's goo.gl service of truncated links
20 December 2010Kaspersky Lab presents ‘End of the Line for the Bredolab Botnet?’, an article by malware analyst Alexey Kadiev. The botnet emerged in mid-2009 and comprised some 30 million infected computers all over the world.
17 December 2010During the third quarter of 2010, Kaspersky Lab’s products blocked over 600 million attempts to infect users’ computers with malicious and unwanted programs.
13 December 2010 According to the report’s author, the year 2010 saw malicious programs reach a whole new level of functionality, which is likely to bring about a major shakeup in the types of criminals orchestrating cyber attacks as well as their aims and the...
13 December 2010Author of the review, Alexander Gostev, Chief Security Expert at Kaspersky Lab, reveals that the main trends seen in 2009 continued into 2010, although their levels of sophistication reached completely new heights in a number of cases.
2 December 2010By far the biggest threat to users in November was drive-by downloads, attacks that result in malware being downloaded to users’ computers when they visit infected sites.
1 December 2010Kaspersky Lab warns users about two highly dangerous new ransomware programs sweeping across the Internet that could potentially wipe data from victims’ computers
26 November 2010 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, played host to journalists from some of the world's leading business publications at its international press tour "Changing Times for IT Security" held in Moscow,...
24 November 2010Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces the publication of the analytical article ‘Internet fraud for dummies: practical advice for protecting yourself against online scams’.
18 November 2010Software scans and adapts in real time to latest threats
18 November 2010Kaspersky Lab has announced a new attach deal with Best Buy UK, part of the world's leading technology store, which will see the companies join forces to help Best Buy's customers use the web with confidence
11 November 2010Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content and threat management solutions, announces its plans to partner the Scuderia Ferrari Formula One team in 2011 and 2012
11 November 2010The quantity of spam messages with malicious attachments more than doubled in the third quarter of 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab's quarterly spam report
8 November 2010Despite the arrests of gang members controlling ZeuS botnets, new malicious programs are still emerging that support its spread, according to Kaspersky Lab's October malware statistics
8 November 2010Kaspersky Lab provides security software to HMV’s netbook customers
3 November 2010Kaspersky Lab announces the publication of its Monthly Malware Statistics for October 2010.
28 October 2010Users of the LinkedIn social network were the victims of one of the biggest spam attacks in September, according to Kaspersky Lab’s monthly report on global spam activity
28 October 2010According to research from Kaspersky Lab, there are nearly 750,000 attempts to access adult content in the UK every day
25 October 2010Cyber Helper, artificial intelligence, developed by Kaspersky Lab in 2009, is designed to automate the process of combating malware. Cyber Helper includes several autonomous subsystems capable of data exchange and interoperability.
12 October 2010 Kaspersky Lab announces that almost 32 million vulnerable applications and files were detected on users’ computers in Q3 of 2010. The ten most widespread vulnerabilities even included some for which vendors had distributed patches in the period...