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- This new trend reflects the professionalization of cyber-crime – The majority of the results of these search engines lead to malicious websites – One search engine detected by PandaLabs has already been used by around 195,000 people, who could now be infected   PandaLabs, Panda Security’ malware detection and analysis laboratory, has observed how [...]

- Panda Cloud Antivirus introduces radically new protection model with lightweight thin-client agent and real-time scanning-from-the-cloud – Community-based protection system automatically classifies new malware in under six minutes with 50 percent less impact on PC performance   Panda Security, a leading provider of IT security solutions, today announced the global beta release of  Panda Cloud [...]

- Barcelona Electronic Crime conference will gather IT operations, security, and law enforcement thought-leaders from Europe, United States, Asia and Australia next month to discuss operational priorities in the global confrontation against phishing and all forms of Electronic Crime. – Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, will take part in the event with a presentation [...]

- The amount of spam detected between January and March 2009 has increased slightly with respect to the same period in 2008. Malicious mail containing false job offers has increased notably. – The USA was the leading source of spam in Q1 2009 – Between January and March 2009, 302,000 computers were infected to be [...]

- Attackers have used SEO techniques to manipulate search results for Ford, improving the indexing of malicious pages to distribute the MSAntiSpyware2009 and Anti-Virus-1 fake antiviruses – PandaLabs has detected more than one million search engine results pointing to these websites – You can watch a video describing the infection process here: http://vimeo.com/4143942   PandaLabs, [...]

- New features for companies include different types of reports for different groups, the sending of warnings through an SMTP server, and numerous improvements regarding the reports. – This version also includes new features to make management of Partners’ and VARs’ clients more efficient – Panda Security’s solution was awarded the Editor’s Choice seal in [...]

- PandaLabs has discovered a banker Trojan, Banker.LSL, which exploits the proximity of the Easter holidays to trick users with a religious video – Once on the infected computer, the malware captures keystrokes, mouse movements, etc. to get users’ banking passwords and steal their money   PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware detection and analysis laboratory, has [...]

- The Virtumonde spyware infected more computers than any other malware – Trojans and adware continue to be the most widespread types of malware – The Conficker worm has caused most concern among security laboratories – The PandaLabs Quarterly Report can be downloaded from http://www.pandasecurity.com/homeusers/security-info/tools/reports.htm   PandaLabs, Panda Security’s malware detection and analysis laboratory, has [...]

As predicted by PandaLabs (http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/archive/Don_1920_t-get-taken-in-by-the-Conficker-panic.aspx), Panda Security’s malware detection and analysis laboratory, the much-feared reactivation of the Conficker virus, forecast for 00:00h on April 1, has yet to cause massive infections. According to Luis Corrons, Technical Director of PandaLabs, “The ultimate aim of the virus is to obtain money. With the alarm generated by the [...]

- This certifies interoperability with market-leading network devices – Panda Security offers companies the best protection without additional complications stemming from incompatibility, poor integration, etc.   Panda Security for Desktops and Panda Managed Office Protection have obtained OESISOK (  www.OESISOK.com) certification in the antivirus and antispyware and firewall categories respectively. This certification by OPSWAT, Inc., [...]