Assessment of effectiveness of protection against in-the-wild threats in the Windows environment (September 2025)
Since the last edition of the Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test in July 2025, several significant changes worth noting have taken place in the methodology and threat landscape. New approaches, tools, and attack techniques used by cybercriminals are forcing security solution providers to adapt and evolve, just as testing laboratories are required to do. Since the […]
Analysis of system protection against active online malware – July 2025
The latest edition of the Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test series, conducted in July 2025, introduces several changes. Firstly, developers of the tested security solutions will receive additional extended logs in the form of an event tree with correlated processes, newly created and deleted files, commands executed in the terminal, Internet connections, and other instructions executed […]
Cyber Transparency Audit of Xcitium Backend Data – Q2 2025
Transparency FirstThen Trust The world needs more transparency in the cybersecurity Ensuring the protection of data and systems from potential damage is a fundamental aspect of cybersecurity. It is challenging for customers to select a product if they do not have the opportunity to verify whether the software aligns with specific standards. The multibillion-dollar endpoint […]
The May edition of Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test on Internet samples
Almost half of the year is behind us, thus we finish the 3rd edition of the Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test – a long-term study aimed at identifying the best comprehensive security solutions for protecting Windows systems. In May, we tested as many as 17 solutions for detecting and neutralizing threats – we obtain URLs leading […]
Detailed EDR-XDR Solutions Overview 2025, Edition 3rd
A word of introduction The growing number of network-connected devices and widespread access to AI language models make organizations constantly vulnerable to cyberattacks and the consequences of careless employees. What’s more, cybercriminals’ access to widely popular AI technologies means that even the sophisticated protection methods implemented by defenders are not always sufficient to fend off […]
Cyber Transparency Audit of Xcitium Backend Data – Q1 2025
Transparency FirstThen Trust The world needs more transparency in the cybersecurity Ensuring the protection of data and systems from potential damage is a fundamental aspect of cybersecurity. It is challenging for customers to select a product if they do not have the opportunity to verify whether the software aligns with specific standards. The multibillion-dollar endpoint […]
Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test results for March 2025
We publish the results from the second series of the long-term Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test, designed to identify the best security solutions for protecting Windows systems at the end of the year. Throughout March, we tested 17 solutions to detect and neutralize real-world threats. The test included 607 unique virus samples found on the Internet, […]
Cyber Transparency Audit of Xcitium Backend Data – Q4 2024
Transparency FirstThen Trust The world needs more transparency in the cybersecurity Ensuring the protection of data and systems from potential damage is a fundamental aspect of cybersecurity. It is challenging for customers to select a product if they do not have the opportunity to verify whether the software aligns with specific standards. The multibillion-dollar endpoint […]
AVLab joins Microsoft Virus Initiative
In 2023 we joined the AMTSO organization (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization). In our roles there, in an international community of experts, we work to improve the transparency, objectivity and quality of security software testing. Now, to meet Microsoft’s standards in testing security solutions, we are joining the Microsoft Virus Initiative (MVI), which aims to: First, […]
WatchGuard tops the Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test – January 2025
We start the new year with the first edition of the six Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test, where we will identify the best security solutions for Windows 11 at the end of 2025, as we did for last year. In this new edition of long-term tests, in which we check the comprehensive effectiveness of security against […]
