PandaLabs, Panda Security‘s antil-malware laboratory, today published its Quarterly Report for Q1, analyzing the IT security events and incidents from January through March 2015. The multinational security vendor detected over 225,000 new malware strains per day in the first quarter of the year,  with peaks reaching 500,000. This record-breaking figure represents a 40 percent increase […]

Not so long ago, Kaspersky clients in the United States approached Kaspersky researchers with a request to investigate a new type of malicious software that they were able to recover from their organizations’ servers. The malware calls itself Grabit and is distinctive because of its versatile behavior. Every sample we found was different in size […]

January 2015 marked a year since you joined Panda, how has the company changed over the past 15 months? The company has gone through three major changes during this time: The first, and probably the most important one, is the return to growth. The results we are getting now indicate that the market is responding […]

BREAKING NEWS! Ransomware is now targeting Android users. Thousands of users are at a risk of having their mobile devices and private contents locked that demands USD500 to restore access.  Users trying to unlock their devices independently will have the amount increased to USD1500.  Payment will be made via Money Pak and PayPal My Cash […]

The research was originally presented at DefCon 2014. It has been published as part of Kaspersky Lab’s support of Securing Smart Cities – a global not-for-profit initiative that aims to solve the existing and future cybersecurity problems of smart cities through collaboration between companies, governments, media outlets, not-for-profit initiatives and individuals across the world. Thomas […]

In March 2015, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that identity thieves engaged in filing fraudulent tax refund requests with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) were using the IRS’s own Web site to obtain taxpayer data needed to complete the phony requests. Today, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen acknowledged that crooks used this feature to pull sensitive data on […]

Mobile companies are now a reality. Nobody doubts that accessing corporate applications through smartphones and / or tablets is not only convenient but also necessary, for increasing productivity to levels which were thought impossible until a few years ago. In addition, the demand by workers, employees and companies’ suppliers for access to the organizations’ mobile […]