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The Internet is turning 50 years old. Time then to take a look back at the part of its history that I have witnessed myself.

Everyone who deals with malware will know this: Malware names are a convoluted mess. AV scanners will show different detection names for the same file. This confusion is also reflected in media coverage. Is there a way out of this mess?

Certificates are an established method for verifying the legitimacy of an application. If malicious actors succeed in undermining a certificate authority (CA) by either stealing a valid certificate or compromising the CA, the entire model unravels. We have taken a look at a case where this has…

Famous German publisher Springer launched ‘Cyberdanger’ worldwide, a book written by Eddy Willems, G DATA’s Security Evangelist.

Malware actors very rarely stick to the same script for extended periods of time. They constantly modify and update their attack methods. Recently we have observed malware that uses server-side polymorphism to hide its payload, which consists of a backdoor fully written in PowerShell.

The third part of the StrangeBits series has the ultimate solution for ransomware, explains why some malware is bloated and looks into a supposedly new skulls and bones malware infection.

A malware called "SilentBruter", which is designed to guess login credentials for online accounts, has caught the attention of one of our analysts. In this blogpost we take a closer look at the Silentbruter-Malware and its rather interesting internal structures.

When facing a ransomware infection, it helps to be familiar with some tools as well as key points to identify ransomware correctly.

In the second part of our Strange Bits series we are taking a closer look at Sodinokibi Spam E-Mails, CinaRAT and a Malware that tries to imitate G DATA.

Sometimes we see odd stuff, like malware that employs a technique called "HTML Smuggling". Also, malware on GitHub seems to be a thing these days.