Pokémon Go: Catch 'em all – but not at any cost
Some may still know the adorable little pocket critters that were all the rage in the late 90s. Now they’re back as an Augmented Reality game for smartphones. Attackers try to use the popularity of this brand new game for themselves and prey on impatient gamers who cannot wait for the game to be…
“HummingBad“ – Money-making Malware, Made in Asia
During the past few days and weeks reports surfaced according to which a new type of malware has infected millions of smartphones and tablet PCs worldwide. The malware in question is highly lucrative for its makers – each month they can rake in up to 300.000 Euros in revenue. The makers of this…
New "Blue Screen of Death": Genuine Help or Security Risk?
There is hardly anything more annoying than error messages and the associated trouble with programs that crash, work that has been lost and the like. Microsoft appears to be trying to improve the user experience with its blue screen errors. However, they have not got rid of the infamous “BSOD”, but…
Invoices that might double in size
Since G DATA SecurityLabs have just reported about the risks posed by Dridex, there have been new alerts. In the latest campaigns, attackers are trying to take files from computers as "hostages". They do so by distributing ZIP archives with malicious content via email. If the user opens the files,…
DRIDEX – THE COMEBACK KING
The next wave of finance malware is doing the rounds – and this time the attackers of German-speaking targets have switched to using typical subjects for the end of the year to lure victims into their trap: tax refunds and overdue invoices aimed at private individuals. However, they are also sending…
mTAN fraud relies on conventional Trojans
In the last couple of days, a fraud has come to light in which mTAN-protected online banking accounts (also known as smsTAN or mobileTAN) have been plundered.
G Data Malware Report
The G Data SecurityLabs published the Malware Report for the first half of 2015. Here are the most important findings.
Five years of FakePlayer - this also means five years of Android malware
In October 2010 the discovery of Android.Trojan.FakePlayer.A, the first known malware for the Android operating system, struck us at G DATA SecurityLabs like a bombshell. Once the initial commotion had died down, a number of questions arose
Two major IT-Security Myths debunked
There are two statements G DATA’s security experts hear and read time and again: “I do not surf on porn websites, my computer can’t get infected” as well as “my computer does not hold anything valuable and I have nothing to hide – why should I be a target?” It would be a pleasure to confirm this,…
New Dridex infection vector identified
Malware authors can sometimes be creative in order to manipulate their human targets on the one hand and to circumvent security products, too. The experts of G DATA’s SecurityLabs analyzed a specially crafted Microsoft Word document the attackers used to install a rather famous banking Trojan called…
Karsten Hahn
Virus Analyst
Tim Berghoff
Security Evangelist
