If your laptop fan is running at full speed or your smartphone battery is rapidly depleting, crypto malware may be to blame. Together with partners from eco competence group Abuse, G DATA has developed proposals on how crypto mining can actually be used for the benefit of users.

Using Microsoft Word to distribute malware is a common tactic used by criminals. Given the popularity of Word, criminals can often "live off the land" and use mechanisms that are already in place to do their dirty work.

Packers are commonly used by malware authors to thwart analysis. In our latest TechBlog article we will take a look at how packers work and how to unpack malware without running it.

A security flaw in Apple's Facetime can turn the iPhone into an eavesdropping device. It will transmit a live feed from the device's camera and microphone to the eavesdropper. The affected feature has been cut off for now.

No other malware-family is as penetrating and has been in development as long as Emotet. The malware has already caused millions in damage in companies around the world. We explain what Emotet can do and why it is so dangerous.

Facebook has to publish internal documents which outline their business practices regarding „Free to Play“ games. Some of the contents were rather unexpected.

Within this follow up post, we dive more thoroughly into one particular problem our Virus Analysts are commonly faced with, namely finding a large quantity of either similar or identical samples. We lay out how we use our graph database to tackle this problem and support our analysts.

Whether on smartphones, desktop computers, crypto currencies or websites - IT security is becoming increasingly important for end-users. We give an outlook on the most important trends for the year 2019.

Compliance and Cherrypickers are only two of the things that will become IT security topics for 2019. Learn more on the G DATA Blog!