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Kaspersky Lab’s senior vice president of IT dispenses essential cybersecurity advice for small businesses.

What lessons can businesses learn from the story of our investigation of the activity of the Lurk gang?

Powerful chatbots can replace real-life communication — and take over the world.

Another piece of ransomware bites the dust: Kaspersky Lab now offers a free decryption tool for the WildFire cryptor.

Kaspersky Lab’s security experts released a detailed report on Operation Ghoul – a targeted campaign aimed primarily at businesses in the Middle East and Europe.

Cyberweapons have to communicate to their creators, propagate within the infrastructure and send data. That’s when an effective and highly flexible algorithm can be capable of spotting them.

In this roundup, we talk about five true leaks and some lessons to be learned from them.

Online dating fraud cost victims millions last year. Be vigilant and protect yourself!

When Canada-based adultery site Ashley Madison was hacked, cybercriminals wasted no time in taking advantage of it. Even now, a year later, they continue to blackmail people and hold their data hostage. We look back at what happened then and talk about what’s happening now.

How to keep your money and data safe during the 2016 Olympics: All of the risks you need to know about, in one post.

Kaspersky Lab experts checked industrial control systems for vulnerabilities and found lots of them.

Everything you need to know about safe posting on any social network, boiled down to five crucial rules.

An Indian-speaking threat actor, Dropping Elephant chooses targets mainly in the Asian region, paying particular attention to Chinese government/diplomatic organizations – and also to foreign embassies and diplomatic offices in China.

Once, hackers wrote malware just for the fun of it, but now Trojans are serious business. However, here are five modern, weird malware samples that may be funny and strange, but they are still very dangerous.

Criminals are stealing money from freelancers — by offering them a job.

Have you ever received a letter from a Nigerian prince? A Nigerian astronaut? How about Daenerys Targaryen? If so, you know that we are talking about funny Nigerian spam — and this post covers it all!

Ransomware is a tough nut to crack — and while it’s distracting you by encrypting your files, it may also be turning your computer into a zombie.

One of the most popular techniques used to penetrate corporate defenses is the use of vulnerabilities found in working software, which, in fact, do not need to be brand-new 0-days.

So you just paid for tickets to the Olympics, and now you’re planning your trip to Rio de Janeiro? Check that ticket twice: you may have been scammed.

The Petya ransomware installer now includes another ransomware called Mischa that complements it.