Kaspersky Lab Anti-Phishing Technology Earns Top Results in AV-Comparatives Test

Woburn, MA – August 27, 2015 - The new version of Kaspersky Internet Security has received the highest Advanced+ award in the Anti-Phishing Test conducted by AV-Comparatives. The Kaspersky Lab solution did not produce a single false positive and successfully blocked 98 percent of phishing URLs, scoring higher than all other competitors. 

The AV-Comparatives test assessed the anti-phishing protection offered by 10 security products in a simulation of typical Web browsing conditions. 245 URLs were selected from a collection of addresses of phishing sites. The URLs were all active at the time of testing, they were unique, and most importantly, they were designed to steal confidential information – such as credit card numbers, financial service accounts, passwords to access email, social networking sites and online games, etc. All products were tested simultaneously (because the longer a phishing URL is active, the more likely that it will be listed in the database of malicious sites).

As a result, Kaspersky Internet Security blocked 98 percent of dangerous links, beating the nearest competitor by 6 percent. In addition, a mandatory requirement in this test to get the Advanced+ certificate was to produce no false positives while checking 500 legitimate banking sites. Kaspersky Internet Security demonstrated superior results by not producing a single false positive.

"New phishing Web pages are created by cybercriminals daily, and unfortunately, it is not often easy for a consumer to recognize a forgery of a bank homepage or online store. In such circumstances, the protection of a consumer’s personal and banking data depends directly on the sophistication of the anti-phishing technologies used. Achieving first place in this test demonstrates that Kaspersky Lab technology is highly effective at protecting its users," says Eugene Smirnov, Head of Content Filtering Research, Kaspersky Lab.

The award winning anti-phishing technology is integrated in the majority of Kaspersky Lab solutions designed both for home and corporate use. Thanks to the multi-layer detection system, which involves local and cloud database checking and heuristic engine analysis, this technology makes it possible to reliably tell a legitimate website from a fake page. More information about this technology can be found here.

About Kaspersky Lab

Kaspersky Lab is one of the world’s fastest-growing cybersecurity companies and the largest that is privately-owned. The company is ranked among the world’s top four vendors of security solutions for endpoint users (IDC, 2014). Since 1997 Kaspersky Lab has been an innovator in cybersecurity and provides effective digital security solutions and threat intelligence for large enterprises, SMBs and consumers. Kaspersky Lab is an international company, operating in almost 200 countries and territories across the globe, providing protection for over 400 million users worldwide.

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