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Klez virus passes confidential info
News The latest variant of the Klez worm sometimes chooses to hitch a ride on sensitive documents, resulting in victims' confidential information spreading with the malicious program, Russian antivirus firm Kaspersky Labs said on Friday.
[April 22, 2002, 10:16]
Computer worm targets Chinese Windows users
News A new computer worm which exploits a hole in Chinese versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer, is currently running riot among China's computer users, according to Russian anti-virus firm, Kaspersky Labs.
[April 28, 2000, 10:34]
Trojan Horse defrauds online shoppers
News A Trojan horse appears to be collecting data from users of an online payment system and could have already removed money from up to 300 accounts, according to security software firm Kaspersky Labs. While Kaspersky labs rates the Trojan as...
[May 18, 2001, 14:08]
Organised crime's grip on the Net 'is tightening'
News According to Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs, these criminals are behind 90 percent of malicious code, leaving teenagers and script kiddies responsible for only a small fraction of total malware.
[December 9, 2004, 16:05]
'Electronic jihad' played down
News The reports came after the Russian news service RIA Novosti published comments made by Eugene Kaspersky, a noted antivirus researcher, saying that several Web sites had posted a call to arms for mass Web defacements to occur on 26 August.
[August 26, 2004, 8:10]
Internet fridges: Virus magnets?
News Mobile phone) manufacturers have a lot of experience in making very secure operating systems so they will not meet the third criteria and should be able to stop any viruses," said Kaspersky said in an interview with ZDNet UK.
[July 12, 2002, 14:54]
Keeping malware at bay
Blog My AV of choice is Kaspersky Anti-Virus, it's relatively stable with a respectable detection rate. I use Kaspersky's custom install to leave out 'Pro-active protection'. Choosing AV and anti-spam approaches is tricky, with many variables and much...
[October 13, 2008, 10:03]
Researcher to demo Intel chip attack
News Kris Kaspersky said this week he will present the findings of CPU malware-detection research, funded by Endeavor Security, at the Hack In The Box conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in October. Kaspersky — who is not affiliated with the security...
[July 16, 2008, 11:31]
Watch out - your data may be kidnapped
News Security specialist Kaspersky Labs on Monday warned that the encryption algorithms used by cybercriminals are becoming increasingly complicated, foxing antivirus companies. There's a potential situation where antivirus companies won't be able to...
[July 24, 2006, 17:40]
LoveBug variant steals bank details
News Russian antivirus company Kaspersky says it has also been alerted to incidents. According to Kaspersky the virus relies on a victim running a piece of software called USB PIN which is used by customers of the Union Bank of Switzerland for online...
[August 17, 2000, 12:04]
Worm crawls into Kazaa network
News Security software firm Kaspersky Labs said the worm, called "Worm.Kazaa.Benjamin", is the first malicious program to spread through the Kazaa file exchange network, although Gnutella was hit by a proof-of-concept worm in February.
[May 20, 2002, 11:51]
Antivirus Product Comparison: A Real-World 'Does It Work' Test
White Papers In the testing, NOD32 excelled in speed and low use of resources, while Kaspersky did a better job with archives but detected fewer overall. A real person answers the phone and the company offers close to 24/7 email support, where Kaspersky has no...
[June 8, 2006, 1:00]
Lexus denies in-car virus claims
News The denial addressed concerns related to a report by security software maker Kaspersky Labs in January that it was investigating the possibility that Lexus cars could be infected by viruses. Kaspersky says that no cars actually were infected and...
[February 18, 2005, 8:25]
Antivirus software decrypts Bagle attachments
News On Wednesday, antivirus vendors BitDefender and Kaspersky Labs both launched updates enabling their software to open any encrypted attachments using the password contained in the email text. Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Kaspersky...
[March 4, 2004, 16:50]
Is tech-savvy virus dangerous or not?
News Kaspersky Lab has already identified five plug-ins that infect all ZIP and RAR archives on a computer's hard drives send messages with encode plug-ins to the virus research newsgroup alt.comp.virus find and infect machines that have already been...
[November 16, 2000, 8:09]
New virus hides behind old technology
News Eugene Kaspersky, the head of the Russian anti-virus research company Kaspersky Lab and the first to spotlight the Stream virus, theorised that hiding malicious code in a file stream would make it harder to detect.
[September 6, 2000, 8:02]
HSBC home banking web site trojan "false report",says bank
Blog Kaspersky reports Trojan.HTML.Agent.ce. The HSBC site was indeed working again, and securely (at least Kaspersky s/w thought so), within the hour. HSBC told ZDNet UK this afternoon that "HSBC has not been hit by a Trojan, but the latest update to...
[August 15, 2009, 14:11]
Deadlier Klez worm on the prowl
News The latest version, Klez.e, (poses) the most serious threat to computer safety," said Moscow-based antivirus company Kaspersky Labs. Though antivirus companies discovered the Klez.e variant in late January, its tenacity has prompted Kaspersky Labs...
[February 12, 2002, 10:01]
Apher worm: From Russia with problems
News Apher appears to be email from Microsoft announcing the arrival of new antivirus software from Kaspersky, a Russian antivirus company. Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, announces the official release of Kaspersky...
[August 23, 2002, 8:27]
Security products may miss malicious files
News The problem affects numerous antivirus products, including software from Trend Micro, McAfee, Computer Associates and Kaspersky Lab, according to Bayora, who works as a computer security consultant in Israel.
[November 1, 2005, 15:40]
