The Emotet malware is still considered one of the most dangerous threats to corporate IT worldwide. Analysts at G DATA Advanced Analytics have tracked down how an Emotet infection starts gradually infiltrating corporate networks and then takes them out of operation bit by bit.

With its DeepRay AI technology, G DATA is leading the way against rapidly changing malware. Carl-Benedikt Bender, leader of the development team behind DeepRay, explains how the technology works and what specific challenges arose during development.

Recently, the Ordinypt malware has seen a resurgence in the wild, disguised as fake job applications sent via email to human resource departments in German companies. The malware uses social engineering to corrupt the user’s files and trick them into paying cryptocurrency to restore the corrupted…

The annual Virus Bulletin conference (called „VB“ for short) is one oft he most important events of the year when it comes to threat intelligence for researchers and analysts as well as product managers and CISOs from all over the world. As usual, G DATA sent several members of their team. When they…

Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7 on 14 January 2020. Anyone still using the operating system will no longer receive security updates after 15 January. We have put together the most important tips to bear in mind when switching over.

The Internet is turning 50 years old. Time then to take a look back at the part of its history that I have witnessed myself.

Everyone who deals with malware will know this: Malware names are a convoluted mess. AV scanners will show different detection names for the same file. This confusion is also reflected in media coverage. Is there a way out of this mess?

Certificates are an established method for verifying the legitimacy of an application. If malicious actors succeed in undermining a certificate authority (CA) by either stealing a valid certificate or compromising the CA, the entire model unravels. We have taken a look at a case where this has…

Famous German publisher Springer launched ‘Cyberdanger’ worldwide, a book written by Eddy Willems, G DATA’s Security Evangelist.