Let’s examine a couple of interesting delivery techniques from an APT active for the past several years, the Spring Dragon APT. A paper released today by our colleagues at Palo Alto Networks presented a portion of data on this crew under the label “the Lotus Blossom Operation“, likely named for the debug string present in much of the […]

Something as simple as an SMS has threaten Apple and its iPhones. A security flaw has been found in Cupertino’s Smartphone, it is one of those text messages which gives the user a nasty surprise: when you receive it, your iPhone reboots. The SMS that causes the device’s failure is not an ordinary text message. […]

We have previously described how Duqu 2.0 doesn’t have a normal “persistence” mechanism. This can lead users to conclude that flushing out the malware is as simple as rebooting all the infected machines. In reality, things are a bit more complicated. The attackers created an unusual persistence module which they deploy on compromised networks. It […]

If we were not aware of the eyes that watch over us on the Internet, Edward Snowden confirmed two years ago that American authorities monitor all our conversations. The former contractor at the NSA revealed that agents of the intelligence services roam freely in our private inboxes. Then, many technology companies reassured their users and […]

We launched the beta for our Panda Security 2016 range! And we will like to ask you for your help! We will love if you could use it, have a look around and give us some feedback! We will appreciate your ideas, comments, and suggestions on what you liked best and, especially, what could be […]

You can’t seem to outrun them. They are seem to strike when least expected. They are growing by the day and you wish they would stop. But no, they continue to haunt you and strike fear in you. And they continue to grow in numbers very rapidly. Malware – known and unknown – are plaguing […]