January 31, 2012 - Today we are publishing the PandaLabs report, where you can enjoy an overview of the main figures and security news that have happened in the last 12 months, as well as some figures. You will see how malware creation hit (continue reading...) Read more
January 26, 2012 - Once again, user curiosity becomes cyber-criminals’ best ally. Scammers exploit people’s interest in celebrities to infect users. We have recently detected a new Facebook scam that uses a fake video of singer Katy Perry and ex-husband actor Russell Brand to (continue reading...) Read more
January 24, 2012 - Last week we got a new follower in Twitter, Alena Edwards: No tweets so far, the only information about “her” is the message in her profile, where she’s looking for funny guys and gives us a link. Probably it is (continue reading...) Read more
January 20, 2012 - As most of you already now, yesterday Megaupload was closed by the FBI, accused of “copyright infringement”. You can read FBI’s press release here where the details of the case are explained, and you can see how each accused person (continue reading...) Read more
January 19, 2012 - In the last months we have seen an increase of ransomware attacks. While the first ones we saw were posing as Microsoft to threaten the user because it had been detected a pirated version of Windows, and in case you (continue reading...) Read more
December 16, 2011 - 2011 is coming to an end, so now it’s time to try to see what we have to expect for the next 12 months: Social networks: Social engineering techniques exploiting users’ weaknesses have become the leading attack method in social (continue reading...) Read more
December 3, 2011 - This could be a long blog post, but I’ll try to make it short. However, for those of you that are lazy, here you can read the answer to the question, and the ones interested on the whole story (I (continue reading...) Read more
December 1, 2011 - There is a new friend in the village. Many people thought that the fake antivirus (aka rogueware) business had decreased, and it was true that for a few months rogueware infections were not that prevalent, mainly due to the efforts (continue reading...) Read more
November 11, 2011 - Greetings from Hong Kong! This week we are enjoying the security conference AVAR, which is taking place in Hong Kong. Some interesting topics are being covered, such as the talk “Malware in EFI”, where Intel’s Igor Muttik showed us how (continue reading...) Read more
November 3, 2011 - The new PandaLabs Report Q3 11 is out. Take a look at what has happened in the computer security field during the last 3 months. Just click on the picture. In this quarter 5 million new malware samples have been created (continue reading...) Read more
October 20, 2011 - Article written by David Sánchez Lavado This post explains how to analyze the malicious code used in current Exploit Kits. There are many ways to analyze this type of code, and you can find tools that do most of the (continue reading...) Read more
October 7, 2011 - As you all probably know, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. These are sad news, and everyone is talking about him and his life as he has achieved so many fantastic things. Social Networks are flooded with quotes from Steve, and (continue reading...) Read more
October 4, 2011 - This week I am in Barcelona, where the Virus Bulletin conference is taking place. I will be attending some preVB meetings, such as the AVPD (AntiVirus Product Developers) hosted by ICSA Labs and the WildList meeting, where we’ll talk about (continue reading...) Read more
September 27, 2011 - In a couple of weeks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it will take place this year edition of the security conference Hack in the Box. This is a great conference I had the pleasure to talk in last year. This year (continue reading...) Read more
September 20, 2011 - This blog post could have been titled also as “A trip from Nigeria to Libya”. Perhaps one of the best-known email scams is the Nigerian letter scam and its many variants. The http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/es/wp-admin/post-new.phpinitial email tries to convince recipients that there (continue reading...) Read more
September 7, 2011 - We’ve found yet another malware piece, this time it is a ransomware to take some of your money. Once you get infected (you can receive it in a number of different ways, most likely via spam messages and P2P), your (continue reading...) Read more
September 1, 2011 - Right after we started Panda’s CI (collective intelligence) project few years back. We decided to provide a community based antivirus program called Panda CloudAntivirus. When all the good guys trying to improve and to keep the community safe. We notice (continue reading...) Read more
July 27, 2011 - Last week I was talking about how certain cybercriminals used social engineering techniques in order to spread their creations, and today I can show you yet another good example of this, showing how fast these guys react on any news (continue reading...) Read more
July 27, 2011 - All of you know that my main concern regarding Anonymous is the kind of protests they carry on. While they consider a DDoS attack a ‘peaceful protest’ the real thing is that it is a crime. However, it seems we (continue reading...) Read more
July 22, 2011 - Maybe you don’t know this, but many guys here in the lab can tell you where a banking Trojan is from just taking a look at it for a few seconds. There are a number of different banking Trojan families, (continue reading...) Read more