Malware

The threat level for Android devices has increased again: G DATA security experts have counted 810.965 new malicious files in the third quarter of 2017. This constitutes a 17% increase in comparison to the previous quarter. Meanwhile, with a share of 73% in Q3, Android has become the most popular…

Everyone who has been tricked into purchasing a subscription via their mobile device knows how frustrating, expensive and tedious it can be to get out of it. A newly discovered malware is capable of purchasing dozens of those subscriptions without the user’s knowledge or consent, resulting in a…

Stealth is the best camouflage of most modern malware. Unless, that is, you are talking about ransomware - which wants to achieve the exact opposite of stealth. In any other cases, anything that makes a malware stealthy is considered desirable. At G DATA, a researcher came across a sample which…

Security researchers found out that that one version of the popular system tuning application "CCleaner" was infected with malware. We take a brief look at this case as well as several other cases from the past.

Domain Generating Algorithms are not a new thing by any stretch. They are used by malware authors to make their command&control infrastructure more resilient. Security researchers can also use features of those methods to get an edge over the bad guys. Come on in and catch a glimpse into some…

There is an active group of malware researchers who specialize in analyzing ransomware. G DATA malware researcher Karsten Hahn is a member of this community. Now a malware file has surfaced that is dedicated to him.

In our first article on the intricacies of this malware, we already hinted at some of its complex inner workings. Now a full analysis is available. ZeuS has been a staple of online banking malware for many years now. Neither ZeuS nor its variant "Panda" are your average, run-of-the-mill Trojans.

In this article we publish numbers about malware based on two ways of counting. The number of newly appeared malware specimen, and the number of prevented attacks on computers. During the first half of 2017 there were on average 47,4 attempted attacks per computer.

The development of any kind of software takes time. Not every function that is planned for the final product is implemented right from the start. It does not come as a surprise that this is also true for the development of malware. At the G DATA Security Labs, a file has sparked the interest of our…

For a long time, gaming was just considered “a bit of a laugh” or “something for the kids”. Unsurprisingly, the security aspect did not receive a lot of attention – it just wasn’t seen as a problem or particularly relevant. But today’s gamers are not just two players sitting side by side as a dot…