Tag Archives: malware

December 12, 2012 – the day that’s fated to be the ‘end of the world’. Humbug? Whatever your opinion on the Mayan prophecies, there are more important causes for concern this year that should get you brooding – particularly in …

February 7th will be a fun day indeed if you love the smell of Malware in the morning. GFI SandBox 4.0 will make advanced malware analysis quicker and easier, and comes with a new Malware Determination Engine which will provide …

Matthew, one of our malware researchers at the AV Labs, came upon a MediaFire link on a YouTube account that purports to direct users to a site where a crack code for the video game Pro Evolution Soccer 2012 (PES …

Is your network sufficiently protected from web security threats? Have you been lulled into a false sense of security? Hackers are changing their habits and using new methods which are web-based, dynamic in their nature and hidden in otherwise legitimate …

Last week, our friends at ThreatPost posted about the ever-growing infection of websites hosting Black Hole Exploit Kits. A Black Hole exploit takes advantage of unpatched Windows operating systems. It also targets other software, such as Java and Adobe Reader, that can be …

One of the biggest concerns for IT administrators is web security and protecting the network they are responsible for. Most IT administrators do a pretty good job of protecting their networks from “the usual suspects”; however, there is one aspect …

Our friends at CSIS, a Danish security company, has spotted a worm spreading within the Facebook platform. In a recent news article penned by Peter Kruse, the worm is said to be “a classic” one in terms of how it infects Internet …

With such a widespread increase in malicious, fraudulent, phishing and scamming sites appearing daily, what guarantees does the IT administrator have that one of the employees will not visit a website that has been compromised and infected by malware? Very …

GFI Software made it in the books of Philippine cybersecurity history by taking part in RootCon, the first official security conference in the Philippines, which was held in Cebu City last month. Two of ours—Berman Enconado (Senior Malware Analyst at …

No one in IT really wants to be the Internet Police – granted. In fact, the less we know about our colleagues’ web surfing habits, the happier we will probably be. Sometimes there really is such a thing as ‘too …