Predictions 2019: "The era of simple Android malware is over"
Whether on smartphones, desktop computers, crypto currencies or websites - IT security is becoming increasingly important for end-users. We give an outlook on the most important trends for the year 2019.
Security tip for this holiday season: Uninstall Flash
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.
G DATA Techblog: Malware Analysis with a Graph Database
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…
Emotet: G DATA cautions against Word documents from the Internet
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.
G DATA joins the Cybersecurity Tech Accord
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.
Cyber attacks on Android devices on the rise
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.
How we discovered a Ukranian cybercrime hotspot
Our researchers wanted to take a closer look at the GandCrab ransomware. Then they found an entire cybercrime network, operating from Ukraine.
Of mortal domains and cars without admins
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.
Next-Generation Antivirus: How G DATA can protect customers from unknown threats
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.
Malware figures for the first half of 2018: The danger is on the web
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.
Karsten Hahn
Virus Analyst
Tim Berghoff
Security Evangelist
