Amount of Malware Reaches 900,000 in the End of June 2008
In its 2008 first half data security summary, F-Secure reports that malware is growing at a faster rate than ever before. This recent explosion of malware doesn’t necessarily represent an increase in new types of threats. It is largely the packing, encryption, and obfuscation [...]

Tokyo eCrime Conference brings IT operations, Internet Security technologists, and law enforcement thought-leaders together from Japan, East Asia, America, and Europe to confront phishing, spam, eCrime, and Internet fraud to speeed the organization of a global response to ecrime.
The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) will preview its Counter-eCrime Operations Summit (CeCOS II) to be held in [...]

The strength of the service-based business again yields strong results for the company
F-Secure Corporation continues its steady growth and increased its revenue by 15% during its first quarter of 2008. The company’s quarterly revenues reached an all-time high of 26.6m€. The strategically important Internet Service Provider business grew by 8% compared to the fourth quarter [...]

April 3, 2008: F-Secure detects Unusual banking trojan
F-Secure has seen tons of banking trojans lately, but now they have come across something quite unique.
According to Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer “This new ‘Banking Trojan’ was found from a drive-by-download site.
We’ve added detection for it as Win32.Pril.AIt not only [...]

March 31, 2008 -The amount of new malware has never been higher. Our labs are receiving an average of 25,000 malware samples every day, seven days a week. If this trend continues, the total number of viruses and Trojans will pass the one million mark by the end of 2008. While there are more viruses [...]

Parents fearful for children’s safety online
· Only 5.5 per cent of parents believe their children are totally safe online
· Parents in Germany are [...]

86 per cent of mobile phone users do not have security software installed, according to F-Secure
Helsinki, March 5th, 2008 – F-Secure Corporation, the global leader in providing security as a service through mobile operators and Internet Service Providers, today announced mobile security results from its Online Wellbeing survey. Over three quarters of mobile [...]

News broke out earlier this year of a new breed of rootkit using techniques never before seen in modern malware. The most notable of them is the fact that the rootkit replaces the infected system’s Master Boot Record (MBR).
The MBR is the first physical sector of the hard drive and contains the first code loaded [...]

F-Secure Security Laboratory has spotted new Window Mobile Trojan – InfoJack, detected as Trojan: WinCE/InfoJack . This is a new kind of worm for mobile devices. According to F-Secure, there have long been malicious downloaders on PCs, but this is the first to be discovered for mobile devices.
InfoJack is a trojan effecting Windows Mobile devices [...]

Helsinki, February 28th, 2008 – F-Secure, a global leader in providing IT security solutions to small and medium-sized companies, today announced the launch of the latest version of its F-Secure® Anti-Virus(tm) for Windows Servers solution, version 8. F-Secure Anti-Virus for Windows Servers version 8 features several significant performance improvements. Version 8 features F-Secure’s new scanning [...]