Press Releases
1 September 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the successful patenting of its cutting-edge IT security technologies in the US and Russia. Patent No. 7 392 544, granted by the US Patent and Trademark Office on...
1 September 2008In its second month of compiling data, the new Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) technology revealed some significant changes amongst the most widespread malicious programs.
28 August 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the release of the article "Rootkit Evolution" by Alisa Shevchenko, a virus analyst at the company. This article by Alisa Shevchenko is the second in a series...
27 August 2008 After reviewing Kaspersky Internet Security 2009 in its August issue, Micro Actuel, one of France’s leading IT magazines, singled out Kaspersky Lab’s new all-in-one security solution for its “Editor’s Choice” award. The magazine’s review highlights...
22 August 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the release of new generation products designed to protect home users from all types of security threat. Version 2009 products combine the benefits of Kaspersky...
1 August 2008New Top Twenty Rankings Benefit From More Insightful Statistics Using The Kaspersky Security Network
1 August 2008The format of the 'Virus Top Twenty' reports from Kaspersky Lab has changed as of July 2008
1 August 2008New worms target both MySpace and Facebook users
1 August 2008Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, has released its latest report on the evolution of spam for the second quarter of 2008.
29 July 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the release of Critical Fix 3 for Kaspersky Anti-Spam 3.0, designed to protect corporate users from unsolicited mass mailings. Critical Fix 3 addresses several...
28 July 2008Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the publication of the article “Fraudulent Spam” by Natalya Zablotskaya, an anti-spam analyst at the company
18 July 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, announces that it has received the prestigious Best of RetailVision Europe Award from Everything Channel, a world leader in information, marketing, research and education...
16 July 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, reports the detection of a malicious program that infects WMA audio files. The objective of the infection is to install a Trojan that gives a cybercriminal control of the...
15 July 2008Kaspersky Lab today announced that Barclays has become the first UK bank to offer all its two million online banking customers free internet security software
15 July 2008Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, announces the publication of the article “Rustock and All That”.
11 July 2008While more than half of respondents have wireless Internet access in the home, over two thirds of these have not taken steps to ensure adequate protection to prevent data theft and ID fraud, or are unsure of the required precautions to take
1 July 2008This month a total of 3 malicious programs for non-Windows platforms appeared out of nowhere.
1 July 2008Summer vacation is in full swing, which means changes in the statistics for malicious programs in mail traffic are relatively small.
26 June 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the start of open beta testing of Kaspersky Administration Kit 7.0, the latest version of its centralized antivirus management solution. Kaspersky Administration...
16 June 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, is now able to provide users with instruction on how to recover files attacked by the Gpcode.ak virus. As reported earlier, decrypting files encrypted by Gpcode.ak without the...
12 June 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, announces the expansion of its global presence and the establishment of a regional office for Spain and Portugal. Ovanes Mikhailov, who has managed Kaspersky Lab activities in...
10 June 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management solutions, announces the opening of a regional office in Italy. Alexander Moiseev, previously the Head of Business Development of Kaspersky Lab in Italy, was appointed Head of the...
9 June 2008 Kaspersky Lab, a leading developer of secure content management systems, announces the launch of the Stop Gpcode international initiative. The objective of the initiative is to factor (‘crack’) the RSA-1024 key used in Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak - the...
6 June 2008A new variant of Gpcode, a dangerous encryptor virus has appeared, - Virus.Win32.Gpcode.ak.