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Key attack scenarios involving brand impersonation
  • threats

Why businesses need to track down their evil digital twins

Crooks are impersonating your brand to attack customers, partners, and employees. How do you spot — and stop — an attack of the clones?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • January 17, 2026

How smartphones actually track you
  • privacy

How smartphones build a dossier on you

We break down the most covert mechanism of smartphone surveillance using real-life examples.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • February 27, 2025

Privacy-Preserving Attribution by Mozilla: what is it and what’s it for?
  • privacy

Privacy-Preserving Attribution technology by Mozilla

In the wake of Google and Facebook, Mozilla has introduced its own technology for replacing third-party cookies: let’s take a look at how privacy-preserving attribution works.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • August 20, 2024

Googerteller lets you hear how tracking sounds
  • privacy

The sound of online trackers

Every time a browser interacts with an advertising tracker, a program called Googerteller emits a short sound.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 6, 2024

How to prevent surveillance through banner ads
  • privacy

Advertisers sharing data about you with… intelligence agencies

Advertising firms’ extensive collection of personal data is becoming of great use to intelligence agencies. So how to guard against mass surveillance?

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • April 17, 2024

How cybercriminals steal advertising budgets, advertising mailouts, and websites, and how to protect them.
  • threats

Five cyberattacks on marketing departments

Why cybercriminals want to attack PR and marketing staff and, crucially, how to protect your company from financial and reputational harm.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • February 13, 2024

Infected apps on Google Play
  • Android

Google Play malware clocks up more than 600 million downloads in 2023

A look at some recent cases of Android malware infiltrating the most official of official app stores — Google Play.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • November 9, 2023

How and where to opt-out of Google Ad Topics for greater privacy
  • google

What Google Ad Topics is, and how to disable it

We explore what Google Ad Topics is, how it functions, and how to disable it. Along the way, we discuss the related topics of Google FLoC, Privacy Sandbox, and the demise of third-party cookies.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • October 7, 2023

How to choose a browser that spies on you less
  • privacy

Private browsers: a beginner’s guide

Alternatives to Google Chrome that take data privacy more seriously.

  • Alanna Titterington

  • May 3, 2023

How to block tracker pixels and web beacons
  • privacy

Who is tracking you on the web and how

What web beacons and tracker pixels are, what’s so obnoxious about them, and how to disable them.

  • Anna Larkina

  • February 24, 2023

How to set up Secure DNS and Private DNS
  • tips

Why you should set up secure DNS – and how

Have you ever come across the words Secure DNS or Private DNS in your smartphone settings and security apps? It’s best to keep this feature enabled – it has many advantages.

  • Stan Kaminsky

  • February 18, 2023

What is App Tracking Transparency, and should you allow apps to track your activity in iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS?
  • iOS

App Tracking Transparency on Apple devices

How to respond to tracking requests in iOS, iPadOS and tvOS 14.5 — or opt out of app tracking completely.

  • Egor Nashilov

  • May 1, 2021

We examined the spam in Eugene Kaspersky's mail to find out what scammers and advertisers are offering him
  • spam

What spam does Eugene Kaspersky get?

We examined the contents of Kaspersky’s CEO’s spam folder to find out what spammers and phishers think might entice him.

  • Irina Shimko

  • July 17, 2020

  • tracking

E-mail tracking: What it is and how you can protect yourself

Creators of ad mailings and spam are very interested in knowing whether you read their messages. This post explains how to protect against e-mail tracking.

  • Vladislav Tushkanov

  • June 26, 2018

  • #RSAC2018

Leaking ads

Even very popular apps display ads using third-party code, which can transmit personal data unencrypted.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • April 17, 2018

  • ads

Everything you ever wanted to know about Chrome’s built-in ad blocker

Chrome learns to block ads by itself. What has Google come up with, and how will it help users?

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • February 22, 2018

  • threats

Cryptocurrency miners in Youtube ads

While you’re watching YouTube, someone might just be using your device to mine cryptocurrency.

  • Leonid Grustniy

  • February 5, 2018

Fireball: Adware with potential nuclear consequences
  • malware

Fireball: Adware with potential nuclear consequences

Adware found on 250 million computers spies on users and can install other software.

  • Alex Perekalin

  • June 7, 2017

Tip of the week: Browser extension features
  • products

Tip of the week: Browser extension features

The Kaspersky Protection browser plugin keeps you safe while you traipse around the Internet — and it has several other useful features.

  • Maria Krasnoshchekova

  • March 7, 2017

Who Calls: Let’s fight phone spam together!
  • products

Who Calls: Let’s fight phone spam together!

Kaspersky Who Calls can help you tell the difference between telephone spam and a normal call. Together, we can eliminate annoying cold calls!

  • John Snow

  • January 31, 2017

  • tips

Tip of the week: Get rid of ad banners

Fed up with ad banners? Kaspersky Internet Security has a smart feature that turns them off — altogether or selectively.

  • Olga Fedorova

  • December 2, 2016

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