New Panda Antivirus Command Line 9.5.1

Pedro Bustamante at  04 July 08 01:04    
I'm happy to announce the availability of our new Panda Antivirus Command-Line scanner (PAVCL) version 9.5.1.00. This new engine incorporates interesting features over previous versions specially focused on detecting and deactivating active rootkits
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Antivirus industry 10 years ago

Pedro Bustamante at  20 June 08 03:51    
From our friends at Ikarus. In the last Virus Bulletin I got a t-shirt from them with this picture on it, but forgot it at the G-Data Table Soccer Championship booth after the final match against BitDefender :( I wonder what the 2009 picture will look
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Panda Internet Security 2009 BETA

Pedro Bustamante at  19 June 08 09:47    
We've recently released the new Panda Internet Security 2009 to public beta. This is the first product to use "scanning from the cloud" technology based on Panda's Collective Intelligence [ PDF ] as the first line of defense against
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Malware Prevalence May 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  16 June 08 12:40    
During the month of May we've seen a 346% growth over April of unique samples actively circulating and infecting users (23.550 samples in May vs. 6.809 in April). Out of the total seen In-The-Wild only a portion are new and not seen in previous months,
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Banking Trojans III

Pedro Bustamante at  02 June 08 12:24    
In previous posts Banking Trojans I and Banking Trojans II we did an overview of the main banker trojan families and their simple characteristics (files and registry entries). Let's dig a little deeper now and take a look at their infection and hiding
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Debian OpenSSL

Pedro Bustamante at  27 May 08 05:45    
From HDMoore , too good to pass out:
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Fenomen(al) False Positives

Pedro Bustamante at  19 May 08 06:22    
One of the problems with automation of antivirus signature creation is that if a few AV vendors start detecting something as malicious, even with heuristics, "automagically" soon afterwards other AV vendors start doing the same without even
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Anti-Rootkit Testing

Pedro Bustamante at  16 May 08 12:02    
DarkReading issued a note a few days ago titled " New Tests Show Rootkits Still Evade AV ". These tests, originally performed by AV-Test.org , are becoming more important every day as malware is making use of advanced rootkit and hiding techniques
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New Malware Prevalence April 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  09 May 08 12:51    
Even though we get thousands of new malware samples in the lab every day, only a fraction of these make it in-the-wild actively infecting users. These are the most interesting samples for us as they're the ones we need to concentrate on the most.
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Banking Trojans II

Pedro Bustamante at  21 April 08 05:21    
In Banking Trojans Part I I covered some banking trojan families. Here I will list the rest of the most dangerous of these types of malicious codes. Goldun, Haxdoor, Nuclear Grabber It usually drops a DLL and a SYS file with rootkit functionality. It
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Banking Trojans I

Pedro Bustamante at  18 April 08 12:40    
Some of the most dangerous types of threats out there today are banking trojans. These malicious trojans are very specialized and focused at stealing banking credentials. They use advanced techniques to fool users , such as injecting HTML code to ask
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Panda ActiveScan 2.0

Pedro Bustamante at  31 March 08 05:08    
We've been working very hard over the last few months to integrate all our online scanners (ActiveScan 1.0, NanoScan & TotalScan) into a single new scanner that rules them all. The result is the new Panda ActiveScan 2.0 ( www.pandasecurity.com/activescan
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Packer (r)evolution

Pedro Bustamante at  19 March 08 06:21    
We know for sure that cyber-criminals use private tools to check AV detection prior to releasing new malware in the wild, making sure it goes undetected by AV signatures at the time of release. As AV companies identify new packers and are able to inspect
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29A Labs has left the building

Pedro Bustamante at  27 February 08 04:03    
One of the most famous international VX groups, 29A Labs, announced yesterday they are closing shop. Following is a note that VirusBuster, the last standing member of the now defunct 29A, posted on the group's website yesterday: I tried to contact
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2007 WildList Proactive Detection

Pedro Bustamante at  18 February 08 09:19    
Andreas Marx from AV-Test has just finished WildList Proactive Detection and Response Time Testing for Q4 2007. You might remember I published the Q3 2007 results , where we achieved a 94% detection rate of the new malware included in the WildList proactively
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