This September 1 didn’t just bring with it the usual back-to-school (or work!) rush that we see every year, but also the ushering in of a hotly anticipated move from Google. Just last June, the company announced that its web browser, Chrome, would begin blocking the web content that used Adobe Flash technology. Basically, this […]

Have you ever wondered why the advertisements that appear on your Facebook feed offer you the exact product and service that you are supposedly interested in? Have you also stopped to think about what information Candy Crush holds on you, or do you just click play anyway? Facebook offers you information on your privacy, although […]

A day after we published our No Ransom Campaign decryptor in the fight against the CoinVault ransomware, we were contacted by a fellow researcher from Panda, Bart Blaze. He kindly suggested that new variants of this dreadful ransomware were available and that he would happily share them with us. After obtaining the new MD5 hashes […]

It’s happened again! Our free antivirus, Panda Free Antivirus, has obtained a 100% rate of detection according to the monthly report that was carried out in August by AV-Comparatives. This is another success for our XMT motor, which is the basis for all of our consumer solutions. That’s not all, though! We scored the same […]

Scanning an object (a file or web resource) with an Internet security program essentially comes down to making a binary decision: dangerous or safe? An antivirus engine puts forward the hypothesis that an object is malicious and then checks whether this is true or not. Since there are, unfortunately, no perfect antivirus solutions, errors can […]

Although it may be tempting to imagine hackers as being shy and socially inept types, whose only human interaction is via their computers, this is an assumption which rarely corresponds to the reality. In fact, in some cases, the social capabilities of hackers have worked greatly in their favor as a method of intrusion. This […]