Kaspersky opens first African Transparency Center - ITREALMS

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As part of the Africa Cyber Defense Forum (ACDF), Kaspersky (www.Kaspersky.co.za) has opened its first Transparency Center in the African region, reports ITREALMS.

The new center, located in Kigali, Rwanda, is opening as part of Kaspersky’s Global Transparency Initiative, established to highlight the reliability of the company's solutions and advocate for greater transparency throughout the cybersecurity industry. The new center offers its visitors a comprehensive overview of Kaspersky's engineering and data processing practices, and a live demonstration of the source code for its products and services.

Banking Trojan mess: Ethiopia leads African countries - ITREALMS

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Ethiopia has been identified as top in the ranking of four African countries attacked by Banking Trojans for the year 2019, reports ITREALMS.

According to Kaspersky described Banking Trojans also known as ‘bankers’ is one of the most widespread tools for cybercriminals as they focus on stealing money.

Available data sighted by ITREALMS showed that Ethiopia has the largest share of corporate users among those who were targeted by banking malware in African regions with 71 per cent in 2019,

This, they said showed that almost two thirds of banking malware attacks in the country were aimed at the corporate sector.

This was followed by South Africa, where this figure is significantly smaller and can be compared to the global number, reaching 30 per cent.

“Kenya and Nigeria, however, saw this parameter being lower than average, with approximately a fifth (22,5 per cent) of banking malware attacks in Kenya targeting corporate devices, compared to 13 per cent in Nigeria,” the firm showed.

A third of these attacks, ITREALMS gathered, in 2019 targeted corporate users, an increase from the figure (24 per cent-25 per cent) that has remained fairly consistent for the previous three years.
ITREALMS further gathered that the Banking Trojan also known as ‘Bankers’ usually search for users’ credentials for e-payment and online banking systems, hijacking one-time passwords, and then passing that data to the attackers.

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Kaspersky backs Paris Peace Forum 2019 - ITREALMS

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The Paris Peace Forum is back for a second edition with the support of Kaspersky, reports ITREALMS.

Kaspersky said it will be supporting and joining this second edition, to present its 'Global Transparency Initiative, a cornerstone of its commitment to a more secure digital future, reports ITREALMS.

This forum, ITREALMS gathered has been slated for 11 to 13 November 2019, at the Grande Halle in La Villette.

This year, the forum brings together a multitude of public, private and civil society actors to discuss global governance and multilateralism issues.

ITREALMS reports that over 30 heads of state and government are expected, with the stated objective of accelerating international cooperation and providing a collective response to the major societal challenges of today and tomorrow.

Involved in building a safe, caring and secure digital world for over 25 years, Kaspersky (Kaspersky.com) joined the Paris Appeal for Trust and Security in Cyberspace in 2018 and is supporting the second edition of the Paris Peace Forum this year. This commitment is part of the deployment of the Global Society Transparency Initiative – a reference of good practice in the sector aimed at building trust in cyberspace with the help of all stakeholders.

On the occasion of the Paris Peace Forum, Eugene Kaspersky, founder and CEO of Kaspersky, will speak about the crucial importance of building trust in cyberspace. "For several years, confidence in all things digital has been eroding. 

"Given this, today the world’s at a crossroads. As a company, we’ve decided to act, and have made ‘increasing trust in cyberspace’ an objective of the utmost social importance with our Global Transparency Initiative. We call upon other IT companies to follow this new standard of transparency and not to let fear and mistrust prevail in the digital world," said Eugene Kaspersky.

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INTERPOL, Kaspersky enter deal to strengthen threat intelligence exchange

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The Kaspersky Lab has reiterated commitment to global collaboration in the fight against cybercrime by signing a threat intelligence sharing agreement with INTERPOL, reports ITRealms.

The legal framework, ITRealms gathered has been designed to facilitate and develop cooperation between Kaspersky Lab and INTERPOL by sharing threat intelligence data on the latest cybercriminal activities, wherever they appear.

ITRealms reports that with cyber threats often borderless in nature, Kaspersky Lab, a leading proponent of the importance of industry collaboration, says its experts have regularly cooperated with INTERPOL to share fresh cyberthreat discoveries with police in its member countries.

For example, Kaspersky Lab participated in a groundbreaking INTERPOL-led cybercrime operation that identified nearly 9,000 botnet command and control (C2) servers and hundreds of compromised websites, including government portals, across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region.

Equally, ITRealms  reports that Kaspersky Lab had previously assisted in a global operation coordinated by the INTERPOL Global Complex for Innovation (IGCI) in Singapore to disrupt the Simda criminal botnet – a network of over 770,000 infected PCs around the world.

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Online privacy: Kaspersky’s standalone VPN for Macs, PCs

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The South African-based Kaspersky Lab, has introduced Secure Connection into its Nigerian market for encryption of traffics on Windows and Mac computers, reports ITRealms.

Based on the Virtual Private Network (VPN) technology, ITRealms gathered that with Secure Connection Kaspersky Lab, automatically enables encryption when the risk of data interception is most dangerous for the user, for example, when connecting to public Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) or using online banking or other sites containing private information.

ITRealms reports that unprotected or poorly protected, transfer of data puts a person's privacy, data and even their money at risk.

“By using tools that are freely available on the Internet, intruders can read and use information transmitted over these connections, including messages, passwords and files,” the lab warned.

ITRealms equally reports that, according Head, Consumer Business at Kaspersky Lab, Andrei Mochola, that Secure Connection promises reliable encryption of transmitted data, and if the user forgets to enable it, the solution will display a reminder when it is most needed.

“For example, it will offer its services if a Wi-Fi network is unsafe or – in the case of the Windows version – if the user attempts to open a site with critical information (email, online banking, e-payment system, online store or social networking site) without encryption. If preferred, Secure Connection can also be set to manual control or continuous encryption,” he said.

Mochola, noted that management of Secure Connection is worth mentioning separately, adding that duration and volume of encrypted traffic transmitted for each connection is easy via a My Kaspersky personal account, and the same portal could be used to control remaining megabytes in the free version.

“User security is our priority, which is why we aim to provide multi-level protection at every stage where users are at risk of losing anything. Traffic encryption is an essential component of digital protection, and we are now happy to provide it to all owners of Windows and Mac computers, and by the end of the year – to all mobile users as well,” he said.

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2016: Kaspersky says 8.5m malicious installation on mobiles

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Latest Kaspersky Lab mobile security report has disclosed that 2016 saw a near-threefold rise in mobile malware detections compared to 2015 to the tune of 8.5 million malicious installations identified led by mobile Trojans, reports ITRealms.

Kaspersky in its annual Mobile Virusology report made available to ITRealms, noted that in the space of just one year, a volume equivalent to 50 per cent of all the malware detected in the previous 11 years (15.77 million in 2004 – 2015) was released.

According to Kaspersky officials, leading the way were mobile advertising Trojans which now make up 16 of the top 20 malicious programmes, up from 12 in 2015, highlighting the evolution of mobile banking Trojans.

The report pointed out that specialist officers from INTERPOL’s Global Complex for Innovation have contributed an analysis of mobile malware on the Dark Web to the report.

In 2016, ITRealms reports that Kaspersky Lab mobile security products reported that nearly 40 million attacks attempts by mobile malware, with over 4 million users of Android-based devices protected (vs 2.6 million in 2015).

In addition, Kaspersky report showed that over 260,000 detections of installation packages for mobile ransomware Trojans (an increase of almost 8.5 times, year-on-year).

“More than 153,000 unique users targeted by mobile ransomware (an increase of 1.6 times compared with 2015); Over 128,000 mobile banking Trojans detected (nearly 1.6 times more than in 2015),” part of the report read.

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