Vulnerabilities

The advanced and highly complex spyware first became a media item in February 2014 following extensive analysis by experts at G DATA. Straightaway the indications were that Uroburos was not designed to target everyday users. Following the cyber attack on the Belgian Foreign Ministry, information has…

The current news about the OpenSSL vulnerability dubbed Heartbleed unsettles many PC users. The vulnerability is as severe as a vulnerability can be. But it is fixed and website admins and software providers have started updating their OpenSSL version. Nevertheless, the problem is bigger.

Uroburos was already described as a very sophisticated and highly complex malware in our G Data Red Paper, where we had a look at the malware’s behavior. This assumption is again supported, looking at its installation process. Uroburos uses a technique not previously known to the public to bypass…

G Data Security experts have analyzed a very complex and sophisticated piece of malware, designed to steal confidential data. G Data refers to it as Uroburos, in correspondence with a string found in the malware's code and following an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own…

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…

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…

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…

Over the last few days much has been written about a serious security hole in the Android operating system that can give attackers complete access to affected mobile devices. Bluebox, the discoverers of the security hole, estimate that 99% of Android devices since v1.6 are vulnerable to the…

Twitter has become an important source of information. When its access data was stolen, the Twitter identity of news agency Associated Press was misused to distribute targeted misinformation concerning an assassination attempt. It's incredible how quickly such an incident can affect even the stock…

During the last few months, we have noticed that there is a lot of confusion about the topic of two- and multi-factor authentication. Often when online banking apps or extra security layers are added to online accounts, there is a false claim of multi-factor authentication. I have even heard someone…