Microsoft releases a new batch of fourteen security updates patching over fifty vulnerabilities today, with one of them known to be abused in targeted attacks. A large number of the vulnerabilities were reported by researchers from Google and their Project Zero, and HP’s Zero Day initiative. Meanwhile, a reflective discussion about the value of these offensive teams is […]

Adobe today pushed another update to seal nearly three dozen security holes in its Flash Player software. Microsoft also released 14 patch bundles, including a large number of fixes for computers running its new Windows 10 operating system. Not to be left out of Patch Tuesday, Oracle‘s chief security officer lobbed something of a conversational […]

Did you know that the new version of Panda Mobile Security, our antivirus for Android, is now available in the Google Play store? The main difference with this version is that you can access the features directly from your Android Wear Smartwatch. That means, that if you have a smartwatch, you can control the antivirus […]

Darkhotel APT attacks dated 2014 and earlier are characterized by the misuse of stolen certificates, the deployment of .hta files with multiple techniques, and the use of unusual methods like the infiltration of hotel Wi-Fi to place backdoors in targets’ systems. In 2015, many of these techniques and activities remain in use. However, in addition […]

Old tricks never die, and bad guys know that. We recently saw a big wave of malicious VBE files targeting Brazilian users, distributed via email messages. Most of the files are downloaders which, after they are executed, try to install a series of badness that goes from traditional banking Trojans to RATs to Boleto malware. […]

Due to the increasing prevalence of cyber-attacks resulting in massive data leaks, it is of utmost importance that we keep our profiles under lock and key so as to avoid becoming another victim. We have already commented on this on more than one occasion – enabling a two-step verification for all services that we use […]

Phishing attacks against business is escalating. You cannot afford to be complacent where computer / network security is concerned. In Q2 of 2015, phishing attacks have increased by 38 percent.   This is the result of sophisticated types of phishing attacks that is ever-growing. These phishing attacks are specifically designed to access corporate information.     […]