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Many people have an image that springs to mind when they hear the term “hacker”. This image is often the result of media reports about criminal activity. But: You might be surprised to hear that the world would be far worse off without hackers.

The clamor and viral use of a very human-sounding, artificial technology chatbot named, ChatGPT gave rise to some new and interesting activities in the cybercrime world.

Sometimes people send files to us that seem to be legitimate Microsoft system files at first glance, yet closer inspection reveals, that they have in fact been modified. Are those manipulations always malicious? And how can file manipulations be identified? Here are seven different ways to do that.

Researchers develop an AI with a 98% malware detection rate and 5% false positive rate. If you think this is a splendid technology for antivirus software, this article might change your mind.

We identified more than 400 samples for Ginzo stealer within 10 days since 20th March and the numbers are rising. What is behind the free stealer?

SmartVMI is getting off the ground: Alongside the University of Passau and innowerk, G DATA is conducting research into improving the state of virtual machine introspection for memory analysis and malware detection.

The malware underground market might seem astoundingly professional in marketing and support. Let's take a look under the covers of one particular malware-as-a-service—the clipboard banker Allcome.

ISO file downloads are advertised via QR codes on Twitter and on supposedly free gaming sites, but they don't contain what they promise.

Pharmaceutical company Merck & Co won its case for coverage of losses incurred during the Not Petya cyberattack, securing a payment of 1.4 billion US-Dollars from its insurance company. Previously, the company withheld the money, citing exclusion policies.

Vaccines have distinct advantages over detection based defense mechanisms, so we developed a vaccine to protect from one of the most notorious ransomware families—STOP/DJVU. But unlike vaccines against biological viruses, malware vaccines are not particularly common. This article explains why.