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On 15 May 2018, Kaspersky Lab announced that it would be migrating some "core infrastructure" from Russia to new data centers in Switzerland. Kaspersky software and antivirus definitions for foreign markets will be compiled and digitally signed in Switzerland by the end of 2018 (products targeting Russia will still be compiled on existing ...
The United States slapped sanctions on 12 people in senior leadership roles at AO Kaspersky Lab on Friday, citing cybersecurity risks a day after the Biden administration announced plans to bar ...
Operation Red October or Red October was a cyberespionage malware program discovered in October 2012 and uncovered in January 2013 by Russian firm Kaspersky Lab.The malware was reportedly operating worldwide for up to five years prior to discovery, transmitting information ranging from diplomatic secrets to personal information, including from mobile devices.
The malware, which infected Kaspersky Lab for months without their knowledge, [2] is believed to be the work of Unit 8200, an Israeli Intelligence Corps unit of the Israel Defense Forces. The New York Times alleges this breach of Kaspersky in 2014 is what allowed Israel to notify the US of Russian hackers using Kaspersky software to retrieve ...
Kaspersky Lab ranks fourth in the global ranking of antivirus vendors by revenue. [7] It was the first Russian company to be included into the rating of the world's leading software companies, called the Software Top 100 (79th on the list, as of June 29, 2012). Kaspersky Lab is ranked 4th in Endpoint Security segment according to IDC data for ...
[1] [2] [3] It was first publicly revealed by Kaspersky Lab, Symantec, and The Intercept in November 2014. [4] [5] The malware targets specific users of Microsoft Windows-based computers and has been linked to the US intelligence-gathering agency NSA and its British counterpart, the GCHQ.
Flame (a.k.a. Da Flame) was identified in May 2012 by the MAHER Center of the Iranian National CERT, Kaspersky Lab and CrySyS Lab (Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security) of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics when Kaspersky Lab was asked by the United Nations International Telecommunication Union to investigate reports of a virus affecting Iranian Oil Ministry ...
In 2015 Kaspersky's research findings on the Equation Group noted that its loader, "GrayFish", had similarities to a previously discovered loader, "Gauss", from another attack series, and separately noted that the Equation Group used two zero-day attacks later used in Stuxnet; the researchers concluded that "the similar type of usage of both exploits together in different computer worms, at ...