Tag archive: Kaspersky

The Stuxnet worm may go down in history as one of the first known instances of cyber warfare, since it appears to have been crafted specifically to disrupt Iran's ambitions to refine weapons-grade uranium. Earlier this year, the related Duqu worm appeared—although it appears to have a different, unknown purpose. Although there has been speculation that Stuxnet and Duqu are related, Kaspersky security researcher Alexander Gostev… Read More

Juniper Networks is raising eyebrows in the mobile industry this morning with a new report claiming the incidence of malware targeting Android devices has risen by 472 percent since July of this year. Presumably, that number is augmented by “hundreds” of malware samples the company uncovered in a series of third-party Russian app stores. Juniper describes the Russian malware cache as just the “tip of the iceberg,”… Read More

The future of warfare may have just begun, but rather than being heralded by an explosion, it began without a sound or a single casualty. It is the first of its kind, and could be a signal of the ways all wars are fought from now on. It is a cyber weapon so precise that it can destroy a target more effectively than a conventional explosive, and then simply delete itself, leaving the victims left to blame themselves. It is a weapon that is so… Read More

If you felt a little bit foolish last time you were taken advantage of by a cunning hacker, give yourself a break: It even happens to the guys who know what they’re doing. In what could be called the computer equivalent of a break-in at the police station, databases at the computer security company Kaspersky were hacked last weekend. The company, known for its Kaspersky Anti-Virus suite, received a letter from hackers on Saturday… Read More

You might not have heard of the Shadow botnet, but it was believed to have infected over 100,000 computers globally, using them to spread spam and malware. That’s in the past tense now. The Dutch High Tech Crime Unit has shut down Shadow and arrested two people, one a 19-year-old Dutch national who ran it, the other a Brazilian who was negotiating the use of it. The police have asked Kaspersky Labs to help shut the network down.… Read More

Kaspersky Labs has announced the availability of free beta versions of Maintenance Pack 2 for both its Anti-Virus 6.0 and Internet Security 6.0 products—which “full support” for Microsoft's new Windows Vista operating system, currently available to business and volume license customers. (Everyday consumers will be able to shell out for the new OS at the end of January, 2006.) “Many of our users have expressed… Read More