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On the dangers of popular television series
Despite an increasing number of people preferring to stream their TV shows and generally opting for legally obtained content, pirates and BitTorrent sites hold their ground. And because, from a legal...
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How crooks use your doppelgangers to pay with your card
You probably know that weird phenomenon: Airplane crashes get significantly more media attention than traffic accidents, despite the number of casualties per year being significantly smaller in the...
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ShadowHammer: New details
In our previous post about operation ShadowHammer, we promised more details. Although investigation is still in progress, our researchers are ready to share new details about this sophisticated...
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Why you need to clean up your computer right now
If you work with a computer (as you probably do), you almost certainly handle a lot of documents: some financial, some technical, some confidential. And then there are the perhaps hundreds of e-mail...
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Wi-Fi in the office — convenient but risky
Almost every office has a Wi-Fi network today, and sometimes more than one. Who wants to connect laptops with a cable? And forget about smartphones and tablets! However, a wireless network can be a...
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Spammers are threatening companies’ websites
Extortionists are constantly inventing new blackmail strategies. Until recently, their main trick was “sextortion,” which you may already have read about. However, as happens with most cyberthreats,...
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Encrypted cities
The number of cyberattacks on US city administrations is on the rise. In less than two months, a third city suffers from the same threat — ransomware. Baltimore, Maryland, was attacked on May 7. The...
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Supply chain as SMB threat
Small business owners may think their companies are too insignificant to become a target for cybercriminals. There is a certain logic in that: Attackers look for maximum profit from minimum effort. But...
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What happened to Kaspersky Free antivirus ?
We’ve answered this one a bunch lately, so we decided to address it in a post. When a user tries to download Kaspersky Free antivirus, they find that they have downloaded Kaspersky Security Cloud —...
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Helping the victims of Yatron and FortuneCrypt ransomware
Ransomware has been and remains a big headache for both users and experts alike. It is not a simple task to recover files encrypted by ransomware, and in many cases it’s impossible. But we have good...
View ArticleRIP Windows 7. What now?
All good things must come to an end, and the time has finally come to say goodbye to Windows 7. As of January 14, 2020, Microsoft has officially stopped supporting the operating system, which means no...
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Adventures in game ratings
It’s perfectly normal for kids to play games, including of the computer and mobile varieties, but not all games (or gamers) are the same. It’s not for nothing that game boxes and online descriptions...
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How to remove banner ads with Kaspersky Security Cloud | Kaspersky official blog
The problem of annoying banner ads — not to mention the malicious bonuses some include — is so acute that numerous programs claim to remove the eyesores from websites. But if you already have Kaspersky...
View ArticleHow does antivirus affect gaming? | Kaspersky official blog
Many gamers believe that running antivirus software causes game slowdown. But this is quite tricky to verify since traditional methods of performance analysis tend to focus on what impact the game...
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