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2006 PandaLabs Annual Report
We have just published the brand new 2006 PandaLabs Annual Report, you can download it from here. Enjoy it!
A curious technique of social engineering
We have recently detected many infections of Trj/Abox.A. This high number of infections is due to the curious technique of social engineering that it uses…
Malware, Banks & Google Maps (II)
It seems that this hacker is pretty active, the Trojan tries to update itself, and then downloads some SSL v.2 crypted packages, which seem to…
Malware, Banks & Google Maps
Yesterday, we detected a downloader that focused media attention because it was spammed using some "curious" subjects: # "Current Australia’s Prime Minister survived a hear…
More fakecodecs!!!
Lately we have noticed an increase in the detection of fake codecs. They are supposed to be codecs that allow users to watch certain videos,…
Smartphone Security
Our QA department has just released a public beta of Panda MobileSecure for Smartphones (here). Even though we don't consider this as a high threat…
MS deny the execution of IE7 if the executable file name isn't iexplore.exe
Some days ago, while we were doing some of our research, we discovered a strange IE 7 behavior or "feature". We were trying to execute…