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.

Compared to 2015, the amount of financial phishing attacks increased by 13.14 percent in 2016 to comprise 47.48 percent of all phishing attacks blocked by heuristic detection technologies.

The Channel Company, has named Michael Canavan, senior vice president, B2B Sales, to its prestigious list of 2017 Channel Chiefs.

Kaspersky Lab experts are analyzing the first Windows-based spreader for the Mirai malware as part of a concerted effort to close down Mirai botnets in the wild.

Kaspersky Lab researchers have examined the security of applications for the remote control of cars from several famous car manufacturers.