Employees Searching Payroll Portals on Google Tricked Into Sending Paychecks to Hackers

Threat hunters have exposed a novel campaign that makes use of search engine optimization SEO poisoning techniques to target employee mobile devices and facilitate payroll fraud. The activity, first detected by ReliaQuest in May 2025 targeting an unnamed customer in the manufacturing sector, is...

IT threat evolution Q2 2020. Mobile statistics

IT threat evolution Q2 2020. Review IT threat evolution Q2 2020. PC statistics These statistics are based on detection verdicts of Kaspersky products received from users who consented to provide statistical data. Quarterly figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, the second quarter saw:...

Fake Antivirus Scams Targeting Android Users

Fake antivirus software, or “scareware” scams have been one of the tried and true methods that crooks have used to make illegal profits online in recent years. The scams often offer convincing replicas of legitimate anti malware software to trick users into installing malicious programs that can...

This Week in Security: Phantom Firefox Menace, Mass Domain Ownage and The Curious Case of IE6

There’s old, and there’s old. Internet Explorer 6 clearly falls into the latter category, but despite its advancing age, IE6 still holds a lot of sway in the enterprise, as new data that came to light this week. That’s not the only weirdness that reared its head this week, though. There was the...