Malware

During the holiday season, users can do themselves a big favor by ditching Adobe Flash, a software notorious for its frequent security flaws. The reason: A zero-day-exploit, which has been spotted at Hacking Team.

Graph databases are growing in popularity because their connection-oriented data model is a natural fit for many domains where the connections between entities are of central importance. We discuss in this post whether a graph database can help us to analyse malware, both manually and for machine…

In a current malware campaign, users are lured with the promise of an invoice credit. But the infected Word documents are not a real treat - they install malware in the background.

To protect users and enhance the state of Cybersecurity G DATA joins an international group of IT-companies and promises, to always put users first.

The total count of mobile malware rises about 40 percent in 2018. G DATA Analysts have identified around 3,2 million malicious apps by the end of the third quarter of 2018.

Our researchers wanted to take a closer look at the GandCrab ransomware. Then they found an entire cybercrime network, operating from Ukraine.

From 3 to 5 October, the IT security industry met in Montreál, Canada, for the annual Virus Bulletin Conference. Tim Berghoff was there for G DATA.

Antivirus programs no longer only work with malware signatures. Read about the next-generation technologies G DATA uses and how you can benefit from them.

More often than not, today's malware is distributed via the web – executable files are becoming less of a problem. Also, the G DATA security experts were able to identify a particular trend in the first half of the year that targets users' computers.

Investments in IT security are difficult for many companies, mainly because their economic benefits are not always easy to calculate. Current examples show that this can quickly become expensive, as the producer of the iPhone chips had to experience for himself.