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UK spam mountain just got bigger
News A fifth of UK spam is now generated within the UK, which, Field points out, is more difficult to identify as spam than emails generated from previous spam hotspots China and Russia. From antivirus to zero-day, click here for silicon.com's... [12 Aug 2008]
Security threat: One web page infected every five seconds
News The US remains the top contributor of spam, followed by Russia, Turkey, China including Hong Kong and Brazil. A is for Antivirus Released Wednesday, Sophos said in its Security Threat Report that an average of more than 15,000 web pages were... [24 Apr 2008]
Phishers attack social networking generation
News Scroggie said: "Russia was implicated in the widespread distribution of malicious code over the last couple of years. A is for Antivirus The report states "66 per cent of phishing attacks in the US were directed towards social-networking sites". [09 Apr 2008]
eBay warns of Romanian phishing threat
News Along with Romania, China and Russia were also pinpointed as the source of the majority of phishing emails targeting eBay users for personal and account details. A is for Antivirus Online auction site eBay has hit out at the lack of interest in... [10 Mar 2008]
GPS phones to triple by 2012
News Galileo has recently suffered funding crises, and now risks falling behind rivals like Russia's Glonass system. A is for Antivirus Wireless from A to Z Click on the links below to find out more… B is for Bluetooth [16 Jan 2008]
Bot attacks target those looking for romance
News Greene said it is hard to tell how prevalent use of the program is in Russia. A is for Antivirus A program that can mimic online flirtation and then extract personal information from its unsuspecting conversation partners is making the rounds in... [10 Dec 2007]
Foreign Office admits data breach
News As soon as the breach was exposed, UKvisas closed down all of the VFS-run websites in India, Nigeria and Russia in order to rectify the problem. A is for Antivirus The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) investigated the FCO after Channel 4... [14 Nov 2007]
China hosting half of world's malicious sites
News The company warned that simply staying clear of sites hosted in the top three countries of China, the US and Russia was not an effective method of avoiding malware. Hackers are hijacking websites around the world to make them point to malware on... [04 Sep 2007]
Q&A: Kimmo Alkio, CEO, F-Secure
News I think there could actually be a big shift from commercial to political DDoS attacks, such as we saw recently with Estonia [and Russia]. Kimmo Alkio, CEO of F-Secure, recently rejoined the antivirus vendor from fellow Finnish company Nokia.silicon... [01 Jun 2007]
Ransomware on the rise, warns Kaspersky
News Eugene Kaspersky, head of antivirus research at Russia's Kaspersky Labs, told the RSA Conference in San Francisco the use of so-called "ransomware Trojans" is a key trend for 2007. Online criminals are turning away from threatening companies with... [07 Feb 2007]
Analysis: What's the next malware threat?
Comment And in March, he spotted a Trojan that plants itself on the mobile and calls a premium rate number in Russia, each time clocking up five euros for the criminal who sent it. David Sancho, an antivirus engineer with security company Trend Micro... [12 Apr 2006]
Photos: Inside Moscow's Kaspersky Labs
Photo Unfortunately among the other things Russia has become closely associated with in recent years is cyber crime - the writing of malicious code, predominantly for financial gain. Eugene Kaspersky, who co-founded the company in 1997, says Russia is... [25 Jan 2006]
Inside Kaspersky Labs: AV at the cold heart of Russia
Comment It's -40°c outside as I'm driven through the barren, ice-bound outskirts of Moscow to meet up with Russian antivirus company Kaspersky Labs. The company has 200,000 signatures in its antivirus database. [25 Jan 2006]
Kaspersky boss explodes security myths
News Kaspersky said the data he sees suggests there is more malicious code coming out of China and Latin America than Russia currently and said he finds it disappointing to see Russia the subject of so many negative headlines. [23 Jan 2006]
Flaw mars Kaspersky antivirus software
News A "critical" flaw in Kaspersky Labs' antivirus software could let an attacker commandeer systems that use the products, a security researcher warned on Monday. The problem lies in Kaspersky's antivirus library, security researcher Alex Wheeler... [04 Oct 2005]
