Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity company, today announced the winners of its Kaspersky Academy Talent Lab, an international competition for university students and young professionals aged 18-30.

Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity company, today announced the winners of its Kaspersky Academy Talent Lab, an international competition for university students and young professionals aged 18-30.

According a new Kaspersky Lab report from the Financial Institutions Security Risks survey, financial customers are playing an important role in highlighting security incidents, with nearly one in four (24%) financial institutions claiming that some of the threats they faced in 2016 were identified and reported to them by a customer.

The Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis Team has discovered a new sophisticated wiper malware, called StoneDrill. Just like another infamous wiper, Shamoon, it destroys everything on the infected computer.

According to Kaspersky Lab’s research, more than two in five (43%) businesses who were victim to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on their IT system believe their competitors were behind it.

Kaspersky Lab today announced the findings of its Mobile Virusology malware report for 2016, which found a near-threefold rise in mobile malware detections compared to 2015 – with a total of 8.5 million malicious installations identified.

Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity company celebrating 20 years in the market this year, today announced the launch of Earth 2050, an interactive multimedia project that accumulates predictions about social and technological developments for the upcoming 30 years.

For the fourth year in a row, Kaspersky Lab has continued to outperform the competition in its TOP3 metric for internet security, achieving top scores in independent tests throughout the year.