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  • Throwback Thursday: Hyppönen, that Data Fellow / Finnish Sprayer

    This week, well known and universally respected industry guru Mikko Hyppönen celebrates his 25th anniversary of working at F-Secure (formerly known as Data Fellows ). In recognition of this milestone, VB takes a look back in the archives at two articles published in 1994: an “insight” into the life and work of the then rising…

  • Throwback Thursday: Hyppönen, that Data Fellow / Finnish Sprayer

    This week, well known and universally respected industry guru Mikko Hyppönen celebrates his 25th anniversary of working at F-Secure (formerly known as Data Fellows ). In recognition of this milestone, VB takes a look back in the archives at two articles published in 1994: an “insight” into the life and work of the then rising…

  • Latest AV-Test results released

    New round of figures compare products to Microsoft baselines. Independent test organization AV-Test has released its latest bimonthly report, covering 26 consumer products and nine business solutions. As in the last report , Microsoft solutions were considered a baseline level, although at least one product which scored lower than Microsoft was still awarded certification. As…

  • India believed to be source of sophisticated surveillance campaigns

    In-depth investigations find widespread worldwide snooping, Pakistan primary target. Several reports have emerged recently covering a highly organised campaign of targeted espionage malware that has been seen in many countries around the world and stealing data from many industries. Close investigation has provided strong hints that the campaign originated in India, with Pakistan the most…

  • Commoditization increasingly seen in mobile malware

    Number of malicious samples and families increase, as Android remains most popular mobile platform. As the number of mobile malware samples in existence continues to grow faster than ever, the mobile threat landscape is looking more and more like that of Windows . Five years ago, a poll of visitors to this website found that…

  • Taking Brain home

    Short film features Mikko Hyppönen returning first PC virus to its birthplace. Anti-malware vendor F-Secure released a short documentary film this week to mark the 25th anniversary of the first PC virus, Brain. In the film, Chief Research Officer Mikko Hyppönen – a natural in front of the camera – tells the story of the…

  • Morphing PDFs in new SEO poisoning trick

    Harmless documents replaced by web pages containing malicious code. Researchers at F-Secure have discovered a new SEO poisoning trick in which attackers put harmless PDFs on a website to raise the site’s profile in web searches but, after the site has been indexed by search engines, replace the PDFs with web pages containing malicious Flash…

  • Less than 30 per cent of smartphone users have AV installed

    Experts disagree on the need for specialist mobile AV protection. In a poll only 19% of visitors to the VB website said they had anti-malware protection on their mobile phone. While 33% of respondents said they did not have a smartphone (and thus would not be susceptible to malware threats), more than 70% of smartphone…

  • From Simple Mail to Hypertext

    HTTP and FTP take over from SMTP as common malware spreading methods. A report from F-Secure has highlighted the recent shift in malware spreading methods from email to web-based methods. For many years, malware authors’ preferred method of spreading their wares was to send out masses of emails that contained a piece of malware as…

  • Malcode from Mexico and Africa predicted to boom

    Developing world expected to contribute heavily to future cybercrime. A report from F-Secure has predicted increasing levels of malware creation and operation in ‘developing’ countries, as internet use and IT competence levels continue to outpace employment opportunities. While the US, Europe and Japan dominated malware development in the 1990s, and China, Russia and Brazil have…