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 [...]
2012 Security Trends
2011 is coming to an end, so now it’s time to try to see what we have to expect for the next 12 months: Social networks: Social engineering techniques exploiting users’ weaknesses have become the leading attack method in social networks. Trending topics such as the Olympics or the next US Presidential elections will be [...]
Hong Kong, AVAR 2011
Greetings from Hong Kong! This week we are enjoying the security conference AVAR, which is taking place in Hong Kong. Some interesting topics are being covered, such as the talk “Malware in EFI”, where Intel’s Igor Muttik showed us how malware could take advantage of the the EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) and the challenges we [...]
Greetings from Barcelona
This week I am in Barcelona, where the Virus Bulletin conference is taking place. I will be attending some preVB meetings, such as the AVPD (AntiVirus Product Developers) hosted by ICSA Labs and the WildList meeting, where we’ll talk about some future plans. All the meetings and the conference itself will take place at the [...]
Xandora presented in the next Hack In The Box conference
In a couple of weeks in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, it will take place this year edition of the security conference Hack in the Box. This is a great conference I had the pleasure to talk in last year. This year Panda Security will be also participating, this time it will be KaiJern Lau, our Technical [...]
PandaLabs Report – Q2 2011
We are releasing it right now. Do you want to know what has happened in the computer security field during the last 3 months? Just click on the picture!:
Changes are coming
Next week we’ll publish PandaLabs Report for the 2nd Quarter. This time we have made a few changes. Our team (special kudos to Txema Quintana) has changed (to better) the design of the report, making it easier to read. But this won’t be the only change. Delivering the news in an impersonal manner is OK, [...]
Greetings from Prague
This week I’ve come to Prague to attend a couple of important meetings. Firstly there is an AMTSO meeting. This will no doubt be the most important AMTSO meeting since the organization was set up, as we are about to approve a series of changes that will affect how the organization operates. After starting out [...]
PandaLabs Quarterly Report Q1 2011
These first three months have witnessed some particularly intense virus activity and there have been a number of serious incidents during this period, such as: the largest single attack against Android cell phones, intensive use of Facebook to distribute malware, and an attack by the Anonymous hacktivist group against the HBGary Federal security firm. There [...]
PandaLabs Annual Report 2010
2011 has just started, so it is time to look back at what has happened in the last year. Today we publish the 2010 Annual Security Report covering an extremely interesting year with regard to cyber-crime, cyber-war and cyber-activism. In 2010, cyber-criminals have created and distributed a third of all existing viruses. That is, in [...]
