The clamor and viral use of a very human-sounding, artificial technology chatbot named, ChatGPT gave rise to some new and interesting activities in the cybercrime world.

Today, no one can do without data at work. However, malware often lurks in shared resources. Stefan Hausotte and his team have developed a solution for this with G DATA Verdict-as-a-Service. He reveals more in an interview.

There are many silent heroes and heroines out there who remain largely unsung. This article deals with one of them, and how his actions can teach valuable lessons to organisations and their IT security today.

An all-out attack on a company network usually causes havoc. Normal operation ceases for the most part, and the entire organisation switches to "emergency mode". Bouncing back from that can be a challenge that might take weeks or months. Here are some practical considerations.

ChatGPT has made quite a splash in recent weeks. The AI-supported chatbot impresses with its convincingly human-looking way of answering questions and interacting with users. This arouses enthusiasm as well as concerns - including in the world of IT security.

In the second part of the blog series, Tim Berghoff, Stefan Decker and Karsten Hahn explore current trends in IT security. Their views focus on the effects on IT security of the past years of crisis, the importance of smartphones in cyber attacks, and the return of rootkits as part of the attack…

Every year in November, we at G DATA CyberDefense ask our IT security experts the same question: “What risks will threaten the IT security of companies and private individuals in the coming year?” In the first part of this blog series, Andreas Lüning, Thomas Siebert and Eddy Willems answer this…

One of the important aspects of creating effective security is to make an assessment about what assets need most protection. This is a multi-faceted endeavour, as this blog article will line out.

Collaboration is an important factor for success. This has always been true for organisation internally. It may seem counterintuitive at first, but sometimes collaborating with a competitor is the best thing you can do.

Sometimes people send files to us that seem to be legitimate Microsoft system files at first glance, yet closer inspection reveals, that they have in fact been modified. Are those manipulations always malicious? And how can file manipulations be identified? Here are seven different ways to do that.