Where is the lulz now?
Really good news. I have just read that LulzSec members have been arrested and that their main head Sabu has been working as an informant for the FBI. It turns out he was arrested last year, and since then he has been working with Law Enforcement. As I said, really good news Will this mean [...]
Michael Jackson catalogue stole from Sony. More to come?
Yesterday it was made public that Sony Music had a security incident in May 2011 and the entire back catalogue of Michael Jackson, including unreleased material, was stolen. This happened after Sony was also hacked last year, when personal information from more than a 100 million customers was stolen in 2 different incidents affecting PlayStation [...]
Bot shopping with my wife
When my wife told me she had received an email with a purchase confirmation she hadn’t done, my first thought was: How can she even remember what she bought? She buys thousands of clothes online, probably she doesn’t remember it, this wouldn’t be the first time After she told me 1,000 times she had not [...]
PandaLabs Annual Report – 2011
Today we are publishing the PandaLabs report, where you can enjoy an overview of the main figures and security news that have happened in the last 12 months, as well as some figures. You will see how malware creation hit a new record high in 2011 with 26 million samples, that Trojans continue to be [...]
Megaupload and the cybercrime fight
As most of you already now, yesterday Megaupload was closed by the FBI, accused of “copyright infringement”. You can read FBI’s press release here where the details of the case are explained, and you can see how each accused person in this case could face 50 years jail time. We should be concerned, as the [...]
The Rise of the Ransomware
In the last months we have seen an increase of ransomware attacks. While the first ones we saw were posing as Microsoft to threaten the user because it had been detected a pirated version of Windows, and in case you didn’t pay the fine they would contact the local law enforcement agencies, the new ones [...]
Could targeted attacks be avoided?
This could be a long blog post, but I’ll try to make it short. However, for those of you that are lazy, here you can read the answer to the question, and the ones interested on the whole story (I will make it short, I promise) just follow the * mark: NO (*) (*): One [...]
R.I.P. Steve Jobs
As you all probably know, Steve Jobs passed away yesterday. These are sad news, and everyone is talking about him and his life as he has achieved so many fantastic things. Social Networks are flooded with quotes from Steve, and all of us have only good words to talk about him. But as you can [...]
The good all scams: new countries, same tricks
This blog post could have been titled also as “A trip from Nigeria to Libya”. Perhaps one of the best-known email scams is the Nigerian letter scam and its many variants. The http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/es/wp-admin/post-new.phpinitial email tries to convince recipients that there are several million dollars which cannot legally leave Nigeria unless transferred to a foreign account. [...]
Ransomware posing as Microsoft
We’ve found yet another malware piece, this time it is a ransomware to take some of your money. Once you get infected (you can receive it in a number of different ways, most likely via spam messages and P2P), your computer is restarted. What for? Well, the malware installs itself to run every time your [...]
