News & Press releases

MX Lab News & Press Releases

MX Lab includes MX Lab Email Archiving & Back up service as a standard
27 February 2009

MX Lab will offer the optional service MX Lab Email Archiving & Backup for free for each account on MX Lab Email Security or MX Lab Hosted Mail solution. Read more.

MX Lab offers Unified Communications Protection based on FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) appliances.
11 September 2008

MX Lab offers Unified Communications Protection based on FaceTime's Unified Security Gateway (USG) appliance that allows enterprises to communicate and collaborate in a save environment without sacrificing security and control. Read more.

MX Lab welcomes two new ISPs and updates MX Lab Admin
03 June 2008

MX Lab provides a new major update of MX Lab Admin, the management interface for clients. The update includes new features, support for multiple languages, interface enhancements like date range selector tools, animated Flash charts, new statistics reports and more. Read more.

MX Lab launches the Managed Anti Virus Service powered by Trend Micro™
10 October 2007

MX Lab offer a fully managed antivirus & anti spyware service using Trend Micro™ OfficeScan™ 8.0 technology for all your PCs, servers and laptops with a zero-configuration installation file. Read more.

MX Lab becomes OEM partner of Commtouch® and integrates RPD™ technology for real time anti virus protection and top quality anti spam.
01 October 2007

MX Lab becomes OEM partner of Commtouch®, a company that provides market - leading anti-spam, zero hour virus outbreak protection and reputation solutions based on patented Recurrent Pattern Detection ™ (RPD) technology. Read more.

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General news

Bredolab surges to new heights thanks to Cutwail botnet
6 November 2009

Several sources reported a surge of the Bredolab trojan in the middle of October but MX Lab did noticed an real increase on October 27th. Read more.

CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert malware
8 August 2008

After a very long outbreak based on the CNN Dailty Top 10 it’s now time for something different: CNN Alerts: My Custom Alert. This new version brings more of the CNN malware outbreak in a changed lay out but with the same tactics. Read more.

CNN Daily Top 10 leads users to site hosting malware
4 August 2008

Following the links in the CNN.com Daily Top 10 email could lead you to sites that hosts malware. MX Lab detected and intercepted the first messages at around 7:48 PM local Belgian time and is monitoring an outbreak of this type. Read more.

Flash based spam
30 July 2008

Spammers often include links in their messages directing to web sites. These links are most of the time in the form of a URL including .html, .htm, .asp, .php or something similar. Read more.

UPS Tracking number trojan - new variant
22 July 2008

Around 00:02 AM, local Belgian time, MX Lab detected an outbreak of a new UPS tracking number trojan. Read more.

UPS Tracking number trojan
20 July 2008

When you receive an email from UPS regarding a package that can't be delivered due to an incorrect recipients address you better watch out. The chance is very likely that this is a new variant of a trojan trying to get your attention and to infect your computer. Read more.

How does the zero hour anti virus of MX Lab performs?
23 June 2008

Virus outbreaks like in the past when tons of emails contained a virus, trojan or other malicious file attached are rare these days. Read more.