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Once again, user curiosity becomes cyber-criminals’ best ally. Scammers exploit people’s interest in celebrities to infect users. We have recently detected a new Facebook scam that uses a fake video of singer Katy Perry and ex-husband actor Russell Brand to trick users. If the user clicks the link, they are taken to a fake Facebook [...]

The new PandaLabs Report Q3 11 is out. Take a look at what has happened in the computer security field during the last 3 months. Just click on the picture. In this quarter 5 million new malware samples have been created and the record of new Trojans has been broken as it the preferred category by [...]

Last updated: 11:15 GMT+1 Spanish Police have just released a screenshot dated May 18 showing a number of targets attacked by the Anonymous group, including Spain’s Central Electoral Board and the Police Corps website. You can see the screenshot here. The Spanish Police have announced on Twitter the arrest of “three leaders of the Anonymous [...]

No, it is not that Panda is hiring people to work in those countries… It’s just that cyber-crime always finds new ways to surprise me. This time through a new scam we have recently detected… The format is more or less the same as always: a well-written, plain-text email in perfect English… As for the [...]

It’s been two weeks since we held Panda’s 3rd Security Blogger Summit in Madrid, and finally I find the time to offer my personal view on the topics discussed at the event. The Summit, attended by more than 300 people, was a complete success as well as a fantastic opportunity to bring together some important [...]

As many of you already know, my work, though enjoyable, it’s very hard. I have to sacrifice many things in my life for my company, Panda, and again it has happened. I have been sent to Bali, and here I am sacrificing myself for Panda, as a loyal employee We have had a very interesting [...]

The IT security industry is no stranger to urban myths: stories that spread and, over time, become accepted as general truths. With the collaboration of our communities on Facebook, Twitter and this blog, we have compiled the most popular urban myths about the security industry, and in particular about antivirus companies. Below we give you [...]

It’s that time of the year again! Halloween is just a few days away and cyber criminals are taking advantage by inserting their malware campaigns right into Halloween related search results.  Searching for Halloween costumes, parties, pumpkin carving patterns, and more can land you right in the middle of one of these malicious campaigns. Here [...]

We’ve monitored the Rogueware threat landscape for quite some time over here at PandaLabs.  Every day we see new domain names, product names, and various fake scan HTML templates.  The Rogueware threat landscape hardly ever changes in a significant way, but today we came across something interesting.  As you may know, most (if not all) [...]

Greetings from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia! Luis and I are in town to give a talk at this year’s annual Hack in the Box security conference.  Our talk titled, “Lessons Learned From Mariposa: Avoiding Disaster, Protecting from Cybercrime” goes into detail about our  collaboration between the FBI, Spanish Civil Guard, security researchers, and the various hurdles [...]