May 1, 2024 The time has come to purchase Dr.Web protection on advantageous terms: for May 1-14, 2024, instead of costing 63,84 EUR (VAT incl.), Dr.Web Security Space comprehensive protection (2 computers / 2 years) will cost 54,26 EUR (VAT incl.). Dr.Web Security Space: reliably protects against all types of cyber threats: malware, spyware, ransomware programs, phishing attacks, and more. keeps your personal data, banking transactions, online purchases and payments secure
 doesn’t slow down your devices The license price includes protection for mobile devices. Please note that a promotional ..read more

April 23, 2024 Please be aware that the cloud version of the Dr.Web vxCube sandbox will be updated shortly. Therefore, the service will be unavailable to users on April 24 from 13:00 to 14:00 MSK. The sandbox’s documentation will be updated to make the description of how the service operates even more complete, and the error that occurred when choosing the default operating system (if the length of its name exceeded 25 characters) will be corrected. The Dr.Web vxCube analyser examines suspicious files by studying their behaviour in an isolated virtual environment. It identifies signs of c ..read more

April 17, 2024 In 2023, ad-displaying trojans were the most common Android threats. Compared with the year prior, spyware trojans were less active and ranked second in terms of the number of times they were detected on devices protected with the Dr.Web anti-virus. Despite the fact that banking trojans were also detected less often, they still pose a significant danger for users around the world as this type of threat continues to evolve. Last year, a large number of new Android banking trojan families were discovered, and many of them specifically targeted Russian and Iranian users, among othe ..read more

April 1, 2024 An analysis of Dr.Web anti-virus detection statistics for February 2024 revealed a 1.26% increase in the total number of threats detected, compared to January. At the same time, the number of unique threats decreased by 0.78%. Once again various ad-displaying trojans and unwanted adware programs occupied the leading positions in terms of the number of detections. Moreover, malicious apps that are distributed with other threats to make them more difficult to detect remained highly active. In email traffic, malicious scripts, phishing documents, and programs that exploit vulnerabil ..read more

April 1, 2024 According to detection statistics collected by the Dr.Web for Android anti-virus, February 2024 saw a significant increase in Android.HiddenAds trojan family activity―it was up 73.26% from January. At the same time, users were 58.85% less likely to encounter the adware trojan family Android.MobiDash. The activity of banking trojans from various families decreased by 18.77%, while Android.Spy spyware trojan activity decreased by 27.33%. In contrast, the number of Android.Locker ransomware trojan detections increased by 29.85%. PRINCIPAL TRENDS IN FEBRUARY A significant increase i ..read more

March 29, 2024 An analysis of Dr.Web anti-virus detection statistics for January 2024 revealed a 95.66% increase in the total number of threats detected, compared to December 2023. At the same time, the number of unique threats increased by 2.15%. Unwanted adware software and adware trojans were most frequently detected as were malicious programs distributed with other threats to make the latter more difficult to detect. In mail traffic, malicious scripts and phishing documents were most commonly observed. The number of user requests to decrypt files affected by encoder trojans increased by 22 ..read more

March 29, 2024 According to detection statistics collected by the Dr.Web for Android anti-virus, in January 2024, users were most likely to encounter Android.HiddenAds trojan applications; these were detected on protected devices 54.45% more often than in December 2023. At the same time, the activity of another adware trojan family, Android.MobiDash, remained virtually unchanged, increasing by only 0.90%. The number of attacks carried out by various banking trojan families increased by 17.04%, Android.Spy spyware trojan attacks increased by 11.16%, and Android.Locker ransomware attacks increas ..read more

Download PDF March 11, 2024 Introduction In October 2023, Doctor Web was contacted by a Russian mechanical-engineering enterprise that suspected malware was on one of its computers. Our specialists investigated this incident and determined that the affected company had encountered a targeted attack. During this attack, malicious actors had sent phishing emails with an attachment containing the malicious program responsible for the initial system infection and installing other malicious instruments in the system. The goal of this attack was to collect sensitive information about the employees a ..read more

March 6, 2024 Doctor Web is rolling out a major update for its remotely administered Dr.Web 12.0 and 13.0 products for business. The update introduces new security-administration features and delivers fixes for identified software defects. New features The much sought-after message logging standard BSD Syslog (RFC 4165) is now supported to benefit system administrators. The “No restrictions” security level has been introduced for the Behaviour Analysis component. In this mode, the “Allow” rule is applied to all protected nodes. This may help companies avoid interruptions to their business rout ..read more

February 28, 2024 Good news for companies that connect with their employees and customers over Telegram. Now, thanks to the commercial version of Dr.Web Bot for Telegram, they can keep their communications well protected. Dr.Web bot for Telegram is the first anti-virus bot that checks links and files on the fly. It can be used on any device that has Telegram installed on it, which includes PCs and mobile devices as well as Telegram Web. The bot scans files (up to 20 MB) and links, with no noticeable impact on the system performance. Add Dr.Web to your group chat, and it will scan all files and ..read more