Funny findings

I was thrilled when I was approached and asked to give a talk at TEDx in Leuven - in this talk I am sharing some anecdotes that have influenced my own career significantly.

Time and again, hard drives, patient records and HR information end up where they do not belong: in the bin. We have examined a case where classified data was still present on a decommissioned notebook computer of the German Army.

People and media are mostly looking at ransomware as a fairly recent problem. That seems to be logical if you see the rise of ransomware the past years. In fact, the problem is much older than most of us think. For this we need to go back in time to the beginning of December 1989. For some this is…

Famous German publisher Springer launched ‘Cyberdanger’ worldwide, a book written by Eddy Willems, G DATA’s Security Evangelist.

The third part of the StrangeBits series has the ultimate solution for ransomware, explains why some malware is bloated and looks into a supposedly new skulls and bones malware infection.

In the second part of our Strange Bits series we are taking a closer look at Sodinokibi Spam E-Mails, CinaRAT and a Malware that tries to imitate G DATA.

Sometimes we see odd stuff, like malware that employs a technique called "HTML Smuggling". Also, malware on GitHub seems to be a thing these days.

Digitization does not stop at bike locks. But not everything is better because it is Bluetooth-enabled.

An old proverb says "The streets are paved with gold". A current curious example from Germany shows that this is apparently true for parking lots, too. That is, if a paper notice is to be believed that we received from a reader of our blog.

Making lots of money quick is the objective of most ransomware. A current analysis from one of G DATA’s researchers also shows another potential motif for distributing ransomware.