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Last year, we took a look at how the pandemic influenced the threat landscape for gamers and the gaming industry. One year later, online gamers are even more active, and cybercriminals continue to exploit this.

The pandemic and the restrictions that came with it have led to an increase in the popularity of dating apps. But what about their security?

Dan Demeter, Senior Security Researcher with Kaspersky’s Global Research and Analysis Team and head of Kaspersky’s Honeypot project, explains what honeypots are, why they’re recommended for catching external threats, and how you can set up your own simple SSH-honeypot.

In mid-March 2021, we observed two new spam campaigns delivering banking Trojans. The payload in most cases was IcedID, but we have also seen a few QBot (aka QakBot) samples.

Сybersecurity companies implement a variety of methods to discover previously unknown malware files. Machine learning (ML) is a powerful and widely used approach for this task. But can we rely entirely on machine learning approaches in the battle with the bad guys? Or could powerful AI itself be vulnerable?

Costin Raiu has been with Kaspersky since 2000. In 2010, he became Director of our Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT). In our interview with Costin, he spoke about the job of a security researcher, its challenges and advantages, and offered some advice for newcomers to cybersecurity.