March 26, 2025 Awards AV-TEST Award 2024 for WithSecure Every day, cybersecurity products deliver monitoring and protection services reliably in the background, unnoticed by many end users and company employees. The renowned AV-TEST Institute has been... Read article
March 19, 2025 Research Cyber incidents in numbers in the year 2024 Throughout 2024, our team diligently collected and analyzed data on cyber incidents across Europe, with a particular focus on geopolitical hotspots and regional trends. The annual review of 2024 in... Read article
February 13, 2025 Antivirus for Windows ATP TEST: 26 security packages fend off ransomware and info stealers In 2024, there was a steady flow of IT security news reporting on how ransomware and info stealers attacked PCs and servers, and encrypted or extracted data. No matter how they ensued, they always... Read article
January 17, 2025 Antivirus for Windows Ransomware: 12 security packages and solutions for Win11 in the advanced ATP test ... The Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) test goes considerably farther than traditional tests: It evaluates security products in 10 realistic scenarios involving ransomware and info stealers, which... Read article
December 10, 2024 Antivirus for MacOS Test: Malware protection on MacOS Sonoma 14.6 Our test lab subjected 14 protection products for consumers and corporate users to hundreds of extremely dangerous MacOS malware attacks on systems running Sonoma 14.6. The lab put all the security... Read article
November 20, 2024 Antivirus for Windows ATP TEST: concealed attacks of ransomware and info stealers Cyber attackers are constantly tweaking new attack techniques, honing existing ones or combining them into an attack wave. In the latest Advanced Threat Protection test (ATP), the experts from AV-TEST... Read article
November 19, 2024 Commissioned testsVPN tests Evaluation of an Additional Security Feature for VPN’s In September/October 2024, AV-TEST performed a comparison test of ExpressVPN, IPVanish VPN, Mullvad VPN, NordVPN and Proton VPN. The test focused on their additional capabilities of blocking malicious... Read article
November 07, 2024 Antivirus for Windows 13 security products in an endurance test: here are the best packages for Windows ... Many consumer users don't see themselves as being in the crosshairs of cybergangsters. A major fallacy: because attackers are constantly foraging for interesting data, passwords or e-mail log-in... Read article
October 25, 2024 Antivirus for Windows Endurance Test: 14 Security Solutions for Corporate Users Much depends on a reliable protection solution for a company. That is why it is essential for a security solution to also demonstrate in an endurance probe how well it works and fends off attacks. The... Read article
