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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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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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94% Proactive Detection

Pedro Bustamante at  08 January 08 04:57    
Recently AV-Test.org published its "Response Time Tests", which measures (in hours) how fast AV companies protect against new malware that makes it into the In-The-Wild list. The study takes into consideration the WildLists from July, August
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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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2007 Proactive Malware Detection Report

Pedro Bustamante at  16 October 07 08:44    
After working so hard it's difficult to keep it to ourselves, so it's time for a little blatant self-promotion. SuspectFile.com, a well known malware support forum in Italy, has recently finished its 2007 AV Report ( italian / english ), focusing
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Windows Vista spotted in-the-wild

Pedro Bustamante at  08 October 07 10:41    
I just read an interesting post by Alex about adoption of Windows Vista. We recently finished a three month research study to discover infection rates on 1,206 medium-sized companies worldwide by performing a malware audit on them. The following are the
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Rootkits in the mist

Pedro Bustamante at  26 June 07 06:05    
During the last 7 months we've been able to gather some really interesting statistics thanks to Panda Anti-Rootkit on which rootkits are most actively infecting users as well as new emerging rootkit techniques being used in the wild. Out of the tens
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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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Malware-friendly countries

Pedro Bustamante at  22 May 07 05:08    
Recently there have been some studies regarding Internet hosting providers which are often used maliciously to distribute malware. As this is an interesting subject we've been tracking quite a few thousand malware samples received over the last few
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PandaLabs 2006 Reports

Pedro Bustamante at  05 March 07 01:43    
It's that time of the year again. PandaLabs has recently published its Annual 2006 Report . It's also very interesting to read the detailed quarterly reports for Q1 , Q2 and Q3 . I specially like the "day-to-day" reports section. Great
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Comparing the comparatives

Pedro Bustamante at  16 January 07 03:46    
Unprecedented number of malware variants, targeted DDoS malware against Gmer's and Joe Stewart' s sites, Web Attacker vulnerability-based malware distribution, mini downloaders, brazilian malware mobs, botnet C&C's completely out of control,
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The Long Tail: malware's business model

Pedro Bustamante at  08 January 07 04:53    
Chris Anderson first coined the term "The Long Tail" back in 2003 while explaining an interesting effect businesses on the Internet were starting to experience ( here and here ). Basically it consits on a statistical distribution which demonstrates
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A very large malware honeynet

Pedro Bustamante at  19 December 06 01:28    
As of today approximately 4.5 million PCs are running a malware honeypot on their machines with Panda's behavioural-based Host Intrusion Prevention System (aka TruPrevent©). All these high-interaction malware honeypot nodes report to PandaLabs
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