There’s a big difference between “mostly dead” and “all dead” with film characters … and with malware distributing botnets. The Dridex/Bugat botnet is still slightly alive …
With a detection rate going as high as 99,8%, Avira Antivirus Pro occupies the 1st place in the File-Detection Test performed by AV-Comparatives in September 2015.
US authorities have jailed the administrators and claim to have shut down the Dridex/Bugat botnet, but Avira researchers are finding signs that the botnet is still functioning.
This month is Cybersecurity Month in Europe – which means that there is no better time to talk about the internet and what you can do to stay secure while enjoying everything it has to offer than now.
At VB2015 in Prague, three experts from the Avira labs – Moritz Kroll, Philipp Wolf & Ayoub Faouzi – spoke on botnet tracking. Here is a summary of their findings:
Earlier this week, CERT-RO organized its 5th Annual Conference in Bucharest focusing on “Global trends in Cybersecurity”. Avira team members had the pleasure of attending the event not only as guests but also as sponsors and speakers.
Avira is proud to be speaking at this year’s Live Event in Berlin, a conversion rate optimization conference aimed at online marketers passionate about AB testing.
Many companies make money spying on you while you surf the internet. Sometimes they even sell the data they collect on you to other companies, without you knowing what got collected or who will get your data. To do so they have normal web pages integrate their tracking cookies – which is by the way the reason why cookies have a bad reputation.
In Virus Lab, we work hand in hand with our support team in order to help them in the daily fight against the „dark side“. We see a lot of infections every day and often ask ourselves how all those user end up with so many unwanted application installed.