Comprised of a small team of cybersecurity and information security experts, AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation regularly evaluations cybersecurity vendors on the performance of their products.
Collecting and verifying in-the-wild malware: AVLab regularly collects malware samples from malicious and active URLs, testing the malware samples to understand their impact to networks and endpoints.
Simulating a real-world scenario in testing: To recreate how a real-life cyberattack would occur, AVLab uses the Firefox web browser to engage with the known, malicious URLs collected in the step prior.
In the most recent test, AVLab emphasized the potential for these URLs to be sent over instant messaging platforms, including Discord and Telegram.
Incident recovery time assessment: With the various cybersecurity products installed, AVLab measures whether the evaluated product detects a malware sample, when it detects a sample, and how long it took to detect that sample.
In the January evaluation, AVLab tested 12 cybersecurity products.
Just more than half of the products blocked 100% of the malware samples tested, and of those products, only one had a quicker Remeditation Time than Malwarebytes Premium for Windows.
Notably, the default cybersecurity program that many users rely on-Microsoft Defender-failed to detect and block two malware samples.
The work conducted by AVLav and other independent, third-party testers is vital to a transparent cybersecurity market.
Users should not have to rely solely on the words of cybersecurity vendors, and vendors should be willing to submit their products to external reviews.
Malwarebytes is proud to once again achieve a 100% score with AVLab's Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test, a trusted resource that proves our commitment to user safety.
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This Cyber News was published on www.malwarebytes.com. Publication date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 22:43:07 +0000