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Mar 25, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com
In 2024, as digital financial transactions continued to expand worldwide, cybercriminals shifted their focus toward mobile devices and crypto assets. According to Kaspersky’s new Financial Cyberthreats report, the number of users encountering mobile banking Trojans rose by 3.6 times compared to 2023, while crypto‑related phishing detections climbed by 83.4%. Meanwhile, PC‑focused malware saw a decline in traditional banking attacks but a surge in crypto‑asset theft. This data comes from Kaspersky’s new Financial Cyberthreats report for 2024.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com | Stan Kaminsky
Why crypto exchanges struggle to guard against targeted attacks, and how to store cryptocurrency threat-free.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com
WhatsApp hack: what to do if hackers steal your WhatsApp account, or you want to protect it from hacking.
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Feb 5, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com
Kaspersky Threat Research expertise center has discovered a new data-stealing Trojan, SparkCat, active in AppStore and Google Play since at least March 2024. This is the first known instance of optical recognition-based malware appearing in AppStore. SparkCat uses machine learning to scan image galleries and steal screenshots containing cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases. It can also find and extract other sensitive data in images, such as passwords.
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Feb 3, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com | Alanna Titterington |Stan Kaminsky |Alexey Sadylko
Getting married is certainly one of the most important events in anyone’s life. And in many cultures, it’s customary to invite hundreds of guests to the celebration — including some you barely know. Cybervillains take advantage of such traditions, using wedding invitations as bait to launch attacks on Android smartphone users. Here’s what threat actors have come up with this time, and how to defeat it.
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Jan 31, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com | Alanna Titterington |Stan Kaminsky |Alexey Sadylko
You may have noticed a slight drop in the amount of coverage of ransomware on our Kaspersky Daily blog in recent years. Sadly, it’s not that ransomware attacks have stopped. Far from it — such incidents are now so commonplace that they’ve become part of the cyber-furniture. Nevertheless, some ransomware attacks still have the power to shock.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com | Stan Kaminsky |Alexey Sadylko
Many macOS users believe their operating system is immune to malware, so they don’t need to take extra security precautions. In reality, it’s far from the truth, and new threats keep popping up. Are there viruses for macOS? Yes — and plenty of ’em. Here are some examples of Mac malware we’ve previously covered on Kaspersky Daily and Securelist:A crypto-wallet-stealing Trojan disguised as pirated versions of popular macOS apps.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com | Stan Kaminsky |Alexey Sadylko
Imagine: you’re calmly working away on your computer, when suddenly a scary message appears on the screen: “Your computer is infected with viruses! Install an antivirus immediately!” or “Your data is at risk! Clean your system immediately!” Panic? That’s what the scammers are hoping for. This post explains what scareware is and why this threat is dangerous. We also give tips for avoiding falling for scarewarers’ tricks, and protecting you and your family from such attacks. What is scareware?
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com | Stan Kaminsky |Alexey Sadylko
The traditional network security model — with a secure perimeter and encrypted channels for external access to that perimeter — is coming apart at the seams. Cloud services and remote working have challenged the very notion of “perimeter”, while the primary method of accessing the perimeter — VPN — has in recent years become a prime attack vector for intruders.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
kaspersky.com | Alexey Sadylko |Stan Kaminsky
If you’re anything like me, you probably share plenty of photos, videos and documents, and send lots of voice messages and emails every single day too. But how often do you stop to consider the additional data contained in these files? For each of these files/media contains metadata — which can reveal a lot of interesting details not meant for prying eyes; for example, a photo’s time and location, a document’s editing history, device information, IP address, geolocation, and much more.