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The bot was first spotted by researchers at Bitdefender Labs on 10 January before it disappeared for a few days. (Representative Photo: Pixabay)

New botnet infects 20,000 devices, uses P2P communication

Dubbed Hide N' Seek, it can also carry out data exfiltration, code execution and interference with a device's operation.

8 Feb 2018 2:34 PM IST

77 per cent of the people in India think that the use of technology gets in the way of relationships today.

Most Indians share personal passwords with partners: Study

67 per cent of the people in a relationship have felt their partner was more interested in their internet connected...

5 Feb 2018 4:17 PM IST

The porn website was allowed to do business in Russia only after the requirement for users to specify their age proof.

Porn-themed malware hit 25 per cent of victims in 2017

25.4 per cent of mobile malware victims were attacked by malicious programs using adult content to lure them in...

1 Feb 2018 3:21 PM IST

Kaspersky Lab researchers have examined logs and network traffic of applications in the internal Android Sandbox to uncover which applications transmit unencrypted user data to networks over HTTP.

Millions of apps risk data leaks due to third party code

Deeper analysis of apps show that data is sent unencrypted over HTTP, which means it is unprotected when it travels to...

24 April 2018 2:35 PM IST

Around 74 per cent were suspended before ever tweeting stats that are in line with Twitters report from the first half of 2017 as well, explains Engadget, a tech news site.

Twitter bans ads from Russia's Kaspersky Lab

The ban follows charges that Kaspersky Lab has close ties to intelligence agencies in Moscow.

22 April 2018 9:29 AM IST

In a typical targeted cyberattack, a threat actor once inside the attacked network establishes a foothold and then collects valuable information to subsequently transfer to the command and control server (C&C).

Symantec analytics enables to uncover most sophisticated cyber attacks

AI and machine learning innovations automate capabilities of Symantec's investigations team to zero in on the most...

18 April 2018 2:43 PM IST

Kaspersky Lab also detected a peak of threat activity in the Middle East. For example, the StrongPity APT launched a number of new Man-in-the-Middle (MiTM) attacks on internet service provider (ISP) networks.

Asia, Middle East a hotbed of new threats: Report

According to experts, routers will continue to be a target for attackers as a way of getting a foothold in a victimÂ´s...

17 April 2018 2:16 PM IST

The study was conducted on the firmware of 1200 smartphones from various manufacturers. (Representative Image)

Is your Android phone actually having the mentioned security patch?

Research shows that most Android OEMs don't actually deliver promised security patches to devices.

14 April 2018 9:19 PM IST

APEC PERU 2016/AFP | Facebook CEO and chairman Mark Zuckerberg speaking during a session of the APEC CEO Summit, part of the broader Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Lima.

Zuckerberg ditches T-shirt, apologises for Facebook mistakes

Zuckerberg held meetings with the top Republican and Democratic senators on the Commerce and Judiciary committees.

10 April 2018 8:17 AM IST

Denham launched her investigation after weekend reports that Cambridge Analytica improperly used information from more than 50 million Facebook accounts. Facebook has suspended the company from the social network. (Representational Image)

Facebook deletes posts linked to Russian 'troll factory': Zuckerberg

Facebook said many of the deleted articles and pages came from Russia-based Federal News Agency, known as FAN.

4 April 2018 11:17 AM IST

YARA rules are particularly useful when tracking advanced threat actors and operations involving fileless malware, or legitimate tools, or those where malicious code is adapted to individual campaigns or even victims.

Kaspersky Lab's threat hunting tool goes into open source domain

KLara can run a fast, distributed series of YARA searches, involving multiple rules and multiple sample collections.

3 April 2018 1:54 PM IST

Fears of battery drain make Apple ban cryptocurrency mining.

Cryptomining replaces ransomware as most popular cybercrime malware

Analysis of vulnerability and threat trends shows cryptomining malware dominates threat landscape in the first half of...

23 July 2018 9:05 PM IST