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Malware Prevalence August 2008

Pedro Bustamante at  05 September 08 10:48    
During the month of August we've seen 8165 unique samples actively circulating and infecting users. These figures come mostly from people who use our online scanner Panda ActiveScan and have a variety of different AV products installed as well as
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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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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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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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Think you're protected? Think again

Pedro Bustamante at  17 October 07 02:02    
For many years the security industry has been saying that in order to be correctly protected, users should have an anti-malware and firewall solution installed and up-to-date with the latest signatures at all times. However malware today is really specialized
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Mal(ware)formation statistics

Pedro Bustamante at  28 May 07 12:02    
While catching up on an old but excellent post by jason geffner on reconstructing import tables I remembered that I've been wanting to study the real impact of packers on the latest malware received at our labs. Many of us AV companies are now more
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