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April 26, 2022

360° Assessment & Certification – Q1 2022

  • 9 Security Applications tested
  • 360 In-The-Wild malware samples used
  • Real World scenario with no user-initiated threat neutralisation
  • PUA/Adware test
  • False Positive test
  • Exploit/Fileless attacks
  • Real Botnet test
  • Financial Simulator attack
  • Ransomware Simulator attacks
  • False Positive Ransomware test
  • Performance assessments
  • Operating System: Windows 10 x64 20H2
  • Browser: Chrome 100.0.4896.60
360 Protection Testing, Endpoint Protection Testing, Exploit Protection Testing, Online Banking Testing, Ransomware Protection Testing
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April 25, 2022

Android Efficacy Assessment – Q1 2022

  • 9 AV engines tested
  • 158 in-the-wild samples
  • 5 simulators
  • One real-life scenario, based on our revised methodology
  • Operating System: Android 8.1
360 Protection Testing, Endpoint Protection Testing, Smartphone Security Testing
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February 21, 2022

360° Assessment & Certification – Q4 2021

  • 9 Security Applications tested
  • 360 In-The-Wild malware samples used
  • Real World scenario with no user-initiated threat neutralisation
  • PUA/Adware test
  • False Positive test
  • Exploit/Fileless attacks
  • Real Botnet test
  • Financial Simulator attack
  • Ransomware Simulator attacks
  • False Positive Ransomware test
  • Performance assessments
  • Operating System: Windows 10 x64 20H2
  • Browser: Chrome 97.0
360 Protection Testing, Endpoint Protection Testing, Exploit Protection Testing, Online Banking Testing, Ransomware Protection Testing
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February 10, 2022

Android Efficacy Assessment – Q4 2021

  • 9 AV engines tested
  • 152 in-the-wild samples
  • 5 simulators
  • one real-life scenario, based on our revised methodology
  • Operating System: Android 8.0
360 Protection Testing, Endpoint Protection Testing, Smartphone Security Testing
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The Smartphone Privacy Fallacy

October 15, 2021  |  Smartphone Security Testing
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Exploits: Detection is not enough

September 23, 2021  |  360 Protection Testing, Endpoint Protection Testing, Exploit Protection Testing

Case Study: Webroot

Webroot has worked with MRG Effitas over the past several years due to their unique capacity to test efficacy functionality that goes beyond simply blocking a threat. While Effitas does understand that prevention is important, they were the first to introduce testing that looked at detection of specific malicious behaviors by using malware simulation tools to replicate what behaviors were being encountered in the wild.

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A New Age of Android Antivirus Testing

February 10, 2022  |  Effitas News

The team at MRG Effitas has been undertaking Android antivirus testing for many years. When we first started putting Android AVs to the test, we faced a lot of challenges. …

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MRG Effitas joins #RansomAware

September 8, 2021  |   Effitas News