Security News

Kaspersky Links Head Mare to Twelve, Targeting Russian Entities via Shared C2 Servers
2025-03-21 10:28

Two known threat activity clusters codenamed Head Mare and Twelve have likely joined forces to target Russian entities, new findings from Kaspersky reveal. "Head Mare relied heavily on tools...

Australia bans all Kaspersky products on government systems
2025-02-24 18:12

The Australian government has banned all Kaspersky Lab products and web services from its systems and devices following an analysis that claims the company poses a significant security risk to the...

Australia Bans Kaspersky Software Over National Security and Espionage Concerns
2025-02-24 09:57

Australia has become the latest country to ban the installation of security software from Russian company Kaspersky, citing national security concerns. "After considering threat and risk analysis,...

Apple missed screenshot-snooping malware in code that made it into the App Store, Kaspersky claims
2025-02-07 03:03

OCR plugin great for extracting crypto-wallet secrets from galleries Kaspersky eggheads say they’ve spotted the first app containing hidden optical character recognition spyware in Apple’s App...

Google removes Kaspersky's antivirus software from Play Store
2024-10-04 16:03

Over the weekend, Google removed Kaspersky's Android security apps from the Google Play store and disabled the Russian company's developer accounts. [...]

US-based Kaspersky users startled by unexpected UltraAV installation
2024-09-24 12:40

A poorly executed “handover” of US-based Kaspersky customers has led some users to panic when software named UltraAV popped up on their computers without any action on their part. What happened?...

Kaspersky Exits U.S., Automatically Replaces Software With UltraAV, Raising Concerns
2024-09-24 11:58

Antivirus vendor Kaspersky has formally begun pulling back its offerings in the U.S., migrating existing users to UltraAV, effective September 19, 2024, ahead of its formal exit at the end of the...

Some US Kaspersky customers find their security software replaced by 'UltraAV'
2024-09-24 01:01

Back story to replacement for banned security app isn't enormously reassuring Some US-based users of Kaspersky antivirus products have found their software replaced by product from by a...

Kaspersky deletes itself, installs UltraAV antivirus without warning
2024-09-23 17:16

Starting Thursday, Kaspersky deleted its anti-malware software from computers across the United States and replaced it with UltraAV's antivirus solution without warning. [...]

RansomHub ransomware abuses Kaspersky TDSSKiller to disable EDR software
2024-09-10 18:29

The RansomHub ransomware gang has been using TDSSKiller, a legitimate tool from Kaspersky, to disable endpoint detection and response (EDR) services on target systems. [...]