The Kaspersky Employee Wellbeing 2021 report unveils that while organisations regularly face employee data leakage, 36% of respondents from the Africa, Middle East and Turkey (META) region prefer not to disclose these incidents publicly. At [c]
Kaspersky experts have uncovered a series of attacks by advanced persistent threat (APT) actor BlueNoroff against small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) worldwide resulting in major cryptocurrency losses for the victims. The campaign, dubbed SnatchCrypto, is [c]
Global Kaspersky research unveils that 37% of healthcare providers across the Africa, Middle East and Turkey (META) region have experienced cases where their employees compromised customers’ personal information during remote consultations. In addition to this, [c]
A recent Kaspersky study found that 61% of employees don’t feel isolated while working remotely, indeed, 37% of remote workers manage to communicate even better with their colleagues this way. The extensive use of non-corporate communication services [c]
Every year, Kaspersky experts look back at the biggest security developments over the previous 12-months as part of the Kaspersky Security Bulletin series to help users and businesses usher in a safer new year. Here are [c]
Kaspersky analysed anonymised 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, or [c]
Medicine has always been a field where innovations play a crucial and truly life-saving role. However, during the pandemic, the healthcare industry was forced to significantly speed up the implementation of new developments. Indeed, this [c]
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 [c]
Kaspersky, the 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 the [c]
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 [c]
New research from Kaspersky interviewing 389 healthcare providers from 36 countries reveals that 86% of medical organisations across the Africa, Middle East and Turkey (META) region have already implemented telehealth (or e-health) capabilities, with 44% [c]
According to Kaspersky’s latest research on the threat landscape trends, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria are facing a dramatic change in the threat landscape. While regular, self-propagating malware is decreasing dramatically, as it is no [c]
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) [c]
While the number of attacks from online resources (known as web threats) blocked by Kaspersky in Kenya and Nigeria combined for the second quarter of 2021 decreased to 14.9 million from the 16.4 million blocked [c]
In light of October being, in various countries across the globe, the month to raise awareness of cybersecurity and domestic violence, Kaspersky has joined with other Coalition Against Stalkerware experts to provide police officers with [c]
When compared to the third quarter of 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 [c]
The increase in cyberthreats recorded by Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) in the first half of this year in Kenya amounted to 32.8 million. Compared to similarly prominently targeted countries in the African region, the recorded [c]
Kaspersky researchers have disclosed the results of the global analysis of stalkerware programs – commercially available spyware often used for domestic abuse. According to their calculations, 507 users have found out they have stalkerware programs [c]
During the month following its release, Squid Game, a South Korean survival drama TV-series, became Netflix’s biggest series, with more than 111 million viewers. Following demand from viewers, cybercriminals are not shy in taking advantage of fans’ eagerness to [c]
Cybercriminals are constantly coming up with new methods for online fraud, and there has been an increase in such activity in recent months. Kaspersky experts noticed increased activity from fraudsters stealing passwords by using special [c]
Kaspersky unveils a free platform with tips and tricks for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to help them quickly improve their organisation’s security. Kaspersky Cybersecurity on a Budget provides a set of short but actionable recommendations [c]
In the late northern Summer 2021, Kaspersky’s automated detection technologies prevented a series of attacks using an elevation of privilege exploit on multiple Microsoft Windows servers. Upon closer analysis into the attack, Kaspersky researchers discovered [c]
Out of the more than 206,000 mobile malware attacks blocked by Kaspersky solutions for the Middle East, Turkey and Africa (META) region in just 6-months measured, between January to June 2021, over 30,000 of these [c]
A new Kaspersky Ask the Analyst service will allow businesses to reach out to the company’s researchers for their opinions and guidance on cyberthreats and security issues. The programme will include malware sample analysis, malware family information [c]
Kaspersky has announced the release of a new solution – Kaspersky Smart Home Security. The new approach will help telecom operators respond to growing consumer demand for the protection of smart home devices. It provides [c]
The Italian F1 Grand Prix – the highest class of international auto racing – is set to take place this Sunday, 12 September. With restrictions driven by the pandemic, not all fans will be able [c]
Kaspersky experts are increasingly observing BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks. Between May and July 2021, Kaspersky products prevented more than 9,500 BEC attacks globally, including those against businesses in air transportation, industry, retail, IT, and [c]
The number of users attacked by exploits targeting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Servers, blocked by Kaspersky products, grew by 170% in August from 7,342 to 19,839 users. According to Kaspersky experts, this staggering growth is [c]
Since the beginning of 2021, Kaspersky has detected more than 1,500 fraudulent global resources aimed at potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining. During this period, the company also prevented more [c]
The Kaspersky License Management Portal (LMP) – which enables managed service providers (MSPs) to order and manage Kaspersky product licenses – has updated its capabilities to include regular license ordering. The process of renewals and [c]
Kaspersky analysed anonymised data, voluntarily provided by Privacy Checker, a website that contains helpful advice on privacy settings for various Internet services and platforms. The results reflect which services and platforms’ Internet users have the most privacy [c]
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