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Vitaly Kamluk answers our readers’ questions about malware counteraction and various security issues

Hackers and cyberspies are not something you only see at the cinema. The Internet is actually crawling with weirdoes and criminals who are just looking for a chance to infect your smartphone or steal your gaming account.

Vitaly Kamluk has more than 10 years of work experience in IT security, and now he is Principal Security Researcher at Kaspersky Lab. He specializes in malware reverse engineering, computer

Kaspersky Lab has discovered an advanced attack on its own internal network and is sharing its investigation results. TL;DR – Customers are safe; neither products nor services have been compromised.

The Chinese-language Naikon advanced persistent threat group is targeting military, government and civil organizations located in and around the South China Sea, which is an increasingly contentious hot-bed of territorial

Kaspersky Lab opens its new European Research Center in London

CozyDuke APT is hitting high-profile targets, including the US government office. Initial penetration method is based entirely on social engineering techniques.

Recently Interpol, Microsoft and Kaspersky Lab revealed and shut down a huge botnet which zombified about 770,000 of PCs worldwide. Check this story out and then check your PC.

We are so used to divide the concept of IT security into two unequal subcategories, hardware- and software-centric. The hardware is usually considered relatively safe and clean — as opposed

There is new piece of ransomware out there going after the players of some 40 online games in an apparent attempt to target a somewhat younger crowd of computer users.

On February 19th of 2015, it came out that Lenovo’s laptops had been shipped with an adware Superfish preinstalled. There are two major problems with this issue. The first one is

A new variant of the Onion ransomware has emerged, though you might see it referred to as CTB-locker or Citroni. Whatever you decide to call it, CTB-Locker is a Cryptolocker-like

The first ever publicly known Mac OS X firmware bootkit emerged out of the 31st Chaos Computer Club conference in Hamburg, Germany last month. Security researcher Trammel Hudson developed the

The Sony breach certainly seems to be the gift that keeps on giving this holiday season. And if the commonly accepted narrative reflects the truth, this whole nightmare scenario stems

Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have uncovered a new variant of the infamous Zeus Trojan. It’s called Chthonic, a reference to spirits or deities from the underworld in Greek myth, and

If December means predicting the new year in the security world, then it also means recapping the year that’s about to end. And that’s just what Kaspersky Lab’s Global Research

This November, Kaspersky Lab brought you a number of insightful industry reads and breaking security news stories. From the Darkhotel APT attacks, to how to increase the battery life of

Talk Security podcast hosts Brian Donohue and Chris Brook are back with the news edition of the Talk Security podcast, discussing the Regin APT attack platform and the movement toward

Nearly every organization in the business of tracking advanced persistent threat campaigns is talking about a new and highly sophisticated attack platform called “Regin” (pronounced: reɪ*ɡən – like the former

In this episode of the Talk Security podcast, Threatpost’s Chris Brook and Brian Donohue discuss the Dark Hotel cyberespionage campaign and the WireLurker Apple malware.

Read highlights from our top posts in October.