Collaborate Disseminate
In this digital era, the success of almost every marketing, advertising, and analytics company drives through tracking users across the Internet to identify them and learn their interests to provide targeted ads.
Most of these solutions rely on 3rd-pa… Continue reading Kaspersky Antivirus Flaw Exposed Users to Cross-Site Tracking Online
Remember “The Shadow Brokers” and the arrest of a former NSA contractor accused of stealing 50 Terabytes of top secret documents from the intelligence agency?
It turns out that, Kaspersky Lab, which has been banned in US government computers over spyi… Continue reading Turns Out Kaspersky Labs Helped FBI Catch Alleged NSA Leaker
A former NSA employee has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison for illegally taking a copy of highly classified documents and hacking tools to his home computer between 2010 and 2015, which were later stolen by Russian hackers.
Nghia Hoan… Continue reading Ex-NSA Developer Gets 5.5 Years in Prison for Taking Top Secret Documents Home
Moscow-based cyber security firm Kaspersky Lab has taken the United States government to a U.S. federal court for its decision to ban the use of Kaspersky products in federal agencies and departments.
In September 2017, the United States Department of… Continue reading Kaspersky Lab Sues U.S. Government Over Software Ban
In August 2016, a mysterious entity calling itself “The Shadow Brokers” began releasing the first of several troves of classified documents and hacking tools purportedly stolen from “The Equation Group,” a highly advanced threat actor that is suspected of having ties to the U.S. National Security Agency. According to media reports, at least some of the information was stolen from the computer of an unidentified software developer and NSA contractor who was arrested in 2015 after taking the hacking tools home. In this post, we’ll examine clues left behind in the leaked Equation Group documents that may point to the identity of the mysterious software developer. Continue reading Who Was the NSA Contractor Arrested for Leaking the ‘Shadow Brokers’ Hacking Tools?
Refuting allegations that its anti-virus product helped Russian spies steal classified files from an NSA employee’s laptop, Kaspersky Lab has released more findings that suggest the computer in question may have been infected with malware.
Moscow-base… Continue reading Kaspersky: NSA Worker’s Computer Was Already Infected With Malware
Kaspersky Lab — We have nothing to hide!
Russia-based Antivirus firm hits back with what it calls a “comprehensive transparency initiative,” to allow independent third-party review of its source code and internal processes to win back the trust of customers and infosec community.
Kaspersky launches this initiative days after it was accused of helping, knowingly or unknowingly, Russian
Continue reading Kaspersky Opens Antivirus Source Code for Independent Review to Rebuild Trust
The cold cyber war has just turned hot.
According to a story published today by the New York Times, Israeli government hackers hacked into Kaspersky’s network in 2015 and caught Russian government hackers red-handed hacking US government hackers with the help of Kaspersky.
In other words — Russia spying on America, Israel spying on Russia and America spying on everyone.
What the F^#% is
Continue reading Israel Hacked Kaspersky, Caught Russian Spies Hacking American Spies, But…
Hit by Jaff Ransomware? Don’t pay the Ransom. You can unlock your files for Free!
Kaspersky Labs has released an updated version 1.21.2.1 of its free ransomware decryption tool, RakhniDecryptor, which can now also decrypt files locked by the Jaff rans… Continue reading Jaff Ransomware Decryption Tool Released – Don’t Pay, Unlock Files for Free
Russian antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab is so upset with US software giant Microsoft that the security firm has filed more antitrust complaints against the company.
The antivirus firm initially filed a lawsuit late last year against Microsoft with Russ… Continue reading Kaspersky Accuses Microsoft of Unfairly Disabling its Antivirus in Windows 10