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According to a commissioned survey conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Kaspersky, IT security leaders seeking to boost internal threat intelligence (TI) programs would prefer to delegate five out of eight major TI aspects to external vendors rather than develop them in-house. For most respondents, quicker threat detection, remediation and response are the main advantages of using external solutions.

During the second half of 2021, almost 40% of all industrial control systems’ (ICS) computers were attacked by malicious software at least once. Even though the overall number of attacks has seen a slight decrease when compared to H1 2021, the ICS threat landscape in the second half of the year has become highly diversified with the percentage of ICS computers on which miners were blocked grew by 0.5 percentage points, spyware up 0.7 percentage points and malicious scripts increasingly growing at 1.4 times the rate seen at the beginning of 2020.

A recent Kaspersky report, “Pushing the limits: How to address specific cybersecurity demands and protect IoT”, revealed that in two-in-five businesses (43%), some parts of their IoT infrastructure are yet to have any protection. Meanwhile, the main barrier for implementation of many businesses’ IoT projects is the risk of cybersecurity breaches and data compromises.

In 2021, the financial threats landscape witnessed positive changes with the overall number of users affected by malware reduced significantly, including a 35% drop in PC malware. Still, financial organizations, as cybercriminals’ most lucrative targets, continue to face massive threats. According to Kaspersky’s new Financial cyberthreats in 2021 report , attacks are becoming increasingly corporate rather than consumer focused. In 2021, every third (37.8%) PC banking malware attack targeted corporate users, representing a growth of almost 14% since 2018.

In 2021, Kaspersky saw a steady decline in attacks on mobile devices, while cybercriminals consolidated their efforts to focus on more dangerous (and profitable) threats instead. New mobile malware has become increasingly complex, featuring new ways to steal users’ banking and gaming credentials, as well as other strands of personal data.

Kaspersky increases its shareholder power in the capital of the MyOffice suite to enhance its business development and diversification strategy.

Kaspersky is excited to announce its participation at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona from February 28 to March 3, 2022. The company will bring its Cyber Immunity vision to the IoT community and present its complete portfolio of consumer cybersecurity technologies for the mobile industry to help organizations and users stay cyber-resilient amid the digital challenges they face today.

Over the past seven years, Managed Services Provider (MSP) levigo systems has strengthened its cybersecurity offerings with Kaspersky, making it to protect around 3,000 customer endpoints in the DACH region, comprising of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. After successfully testing Kaspersky solutions to protect its own IT ecosystem first, levigo systems is now Kaspersky’s largest MSP partner in the region.

Kaspersky has received its highest evaluation from customers on Gartner Peer Insights™ for its Kaspersky Managed Detection and Response. As of February 8 , 2022, the company has received an overall rating of five out of five, based on 33 verified reviews, with 100% of users willing to recommend the solution.

Kaspersky has integrated its SDK for smart car applications with the Airbiquity OTAmatic® over-the-air (OTA) Software Management Platform. With this integration, developers of electronic control unit (ECU) applications based on Kaspersky Automotive Adaptive Platform can manage the secure delivery of software updates for their applications remotely.