Beware of infected storage devices: USB flash drives, Floppy disks, CD-ROMs Classic tricks never go out of style. A favorite trick in the cyber-crime world is done by infecting USB flash drives (or whatever method of storage that is used at the time… remember floppy disks and CD-ROMs?) to cast a malicious program onto […]

Major football tournaments such as the World Cup and the European Championship, traditionally attract a lot of spammer activity. Euro 2016 will be held this summer in France, and it’s not only the fans and players who are getting ready but also Internet fraudsters. The latter have started sending out fake notifications about lottery wins […]

Today, April 23rd, we celebrate World Book Day. Literature has evolved greatly in recent times, both in the way we enjoy it and the way we consume it. How we read, in the digital realm, has changed. In today’s on-the-go society, it is becoming less and less common for people to use paperbacks or hardcovers, […]

Synching your smartphone and computer might increase your chances of being hacked A classic piece of advice that helps keep email, social networks and other online services safe is by enabling something called two-step verification. This security mechanism makes it more difficult for a cyber-delinquent to access your account through two-step verification. When a different […]

Two hackers convicted of making and selling the infamous SpyEye botnet creation kit were sentenced in Georgia today to a combined 24 years in prison for helping to infect hundreds of thousands of computers with malware and stealing millions from unsuspecting victims. Aleksander Panin developed and sold SpyEye. Image courtesy: RT. Atlanta Judge Amy Totenberg handed down a sentence of nine years, six months […]

A few days ago at PandaLabs, Panda Security’s anti-malware lab, we discovered a type of ransomware that we believe is extremely important to talk about, especially because of its novelty and its unique features. The name of this new ransomware is CryptoBit. If we compare it to what we’ve learned thus far from other ransomware, […]