Worth looking again: fake Flash Player apps in Google Play store
At the weekend, a number of fraudulent apps pretending to be Adobe Flash Player appeared on the official Google Play store. Of the three apps we looked at, all demanded payment from the user before installation and one even spied on the user in the background. Google reacted fast and deleted the…
Cridex banking Trojan on the rise
In recent weeks G Data SecurityLabs has been observing a widespread spam campaign that is mainly targeting German Internet users. In two major waves so far, the names of four globally renowned companies have been misused as decoys to infect users with the Cridex banking Trojan. The attackers are…
It’s high time to say goodbye: Windows XP‘s end of life is dawning
For months, tech magazines and the media have been reporting about the end of support of Microsoft’s very popular products in April 2014: Windows XP and Office 2003. But many end users and especially business users are still booting their Win XP computers day by day –they put their computers…
Fighting Botnets – ACDC and BotConf
BotConf, the first public conference in France to deal with the fight against botnets, was held in Nantes on December 5th and 6th 2013. In the lead-up to this conference, a workshop for the ACDC project (Advanced Cybercrime Defence Center) was held. G Data is the only AV company to be taking part in…
Bebloh – a well-known banking Trojan with noteworthy innovations
The banking Trojan Bebloh has been known about and studied for a number of years. But even new developments in the malware have not produced any notable innovations – until recently. The observed infection rates with Bebloh in the first half of 2013 were comparatively small – with a share of just…
EICAR 2013 Conference
From November 17th to 19th, the 22nd EICAR Conference was held at the Leibnitz University in Hanover (Germany), the home of the well known Institute for Legal Informatics. For the last 22 years, the EICAR Conference has gained a solid reputation in the IT security world. This year, the EICAR…
"Potentially Unwanted Programs": much more than just annoying
Technology forums are full of complaints and questions about "Potentially Unwanted Programs", or PUPs. Users complain that "a virus has infected their browser" or "a toolbar has hacked into the PC" and they justifiably feel extremely aggrieved by this. However, this does not involve malware in the…
Greetings from Berlin! The Virus Bulletin Conference 2013
It was now the international conference's 23rd edition during which AV industry representatives met to discuss current research matters as well as new technologies and developments. And of course they also met to hold the traditional table soccer tournament.
Banking Trojans disguise attack targets in the Cloud
Cloud-Technologies are popular and widely spread – whether for storage of data, rented computational power or as part of protection technologies. Also cybercriminals discover the practical approach. Experts from G Data SecurityLabs spotted a new trend: Attacks by information stealers, a kind of…
Android malware barometer shows that a storm is brewing
For cyber criminals, Android is the number one mobile target. G Data Security Labs registered almost 520,000 new malicious files for the operating system in the first half of 2013, as shown by the current G Data Mobile Malware Report. Versatile Trojan horses were the perpetrators' weapon of choice…
Karsten Hahn
Virus Analyst
Tim Berghoff
Security Evangelist
