Weekly report on viruses and intruders
The amount of new malware created every year has increased 25,818 percent over the last seven years, according to a report by PandaLabs. "This data underlines the fact that more malware is being circulated now than at any other time, and this trend is con...
Malware created every year has increased 25,000% since 2000
A new wave of Trojans is using phishing-type techniques to steal users' bank details. BanKey.A and BankFake.A are the latest such examples. When run, both Trojans show users a page that looks like an online bank website for them to enter their bank passwo...
Banker Trojans imitating phishing attacks
Jorge Dinares will join Panda Software as the new CEO on June 1, and will have executive responsibility for this group with a presence in more than 50 countries.
Jorge Dinares: new CEO of the Panda Software Group
Trojans and adware were responsible for 49.8 percent of all infections detected by Panda ActiveScan in May. Specifically, Trojans were the culprits of 26.14 percent of attacks, while adware (a type of malware designed to display advertisements) reached 23...
Trojans and adware accounted for almost 50% of all infections in May
This week's PandaLabs' report focuses on the Bankey.A, BankFake.A, Ketawa.A and the Opticibot.A Trojans and informs about Braban.F, a worm that spreads through MSN Messenger.
Weekly report on viruses and intruders
According to data compiled by TrustLayer Mail, the managed security service from Panda Software, 90 percent of email that reached companies in May was spam. This data has been extracted from a study of those companies who have contracted this service.
90% of mail received by companies in May was spam
A study carried out by PandaLabs has revealed that 78 percent of new malware uses some kind of file packing to evade detection. A packer is a program used to reduce the size of an executable file, generally through compression. However, these programs can...