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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 utilize or combine state-of-the-art attack techniques. In doing so, the ATP test analyzes whether the defensive measures hold up in each step – or where they fail. The 12 tested products for consumer users and corporate users, running on Windows 11, are required to hold their own against techniques such as COM hijacking, reflective code loading, decoupling and low entropy encoding. Many products were up to the task, but not all. In some cases, the last firewall failed, and data was encrypted, stolen, or both.

Ransomware: 12 security packages and solutions for Win11 in the...

January 17, 2025 | Antivirus for Windows

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 packages through tests in the categories of protection, performance and usability. And it was no easy task, as the various malware samples used in the test are some of the most malicious ones when it comes to current cyber threats. The products evaluated by the lab achieved top scores, with only a few exceptions, which leads to a noticeable increase in the security of MacOS systems.

Test: Malware protection on MacOS Sonoma 14.6

December 10, 2024 | Antivirus for macOS

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 examined how well protection products detect and fend off the newly developed attacks. In the test lab, 6 products for consumer users and 8 solutions for corporate users demonstrated how well they can parry attacks. In the test, attackers with ransomware and info stealers harnessed the techniques of dynamic API resolution, DLL sideloading, PowerShell ScriptBlockAst command concealment, cloaking themselves in known Windows tools. The test indicates that some protection products are hard put to deal with the attack techniques and cannot always withstand the attacks.

ATP TEST: concealed attacks of ransomware and info stealers ...

November 20, 2024 | Antivirus for Windows

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 URLs and phishing websites as well as false positive avoidance.

Evaluation of an Additional Security Feature for VPN’s ...

November 19, 2024 | Commissioned tests, VPN tests