MRG Effitas Q4 2025 360 Degree Assessment and Certification

This programme is called “360° Assessment & Certification” as it tests the capabilities of the participating security applications with a full spectrum of attack vectors. In-The-Wild Assessment, trojans, backdoors, spyware, financial malware, ransomware, and “other” malicious applications are all used. Alongside the traditional In-The-Wild (ITW) file-based attacks, our evaluation also contains scenarios where fileless cases and exploitation techniques, live botnets and financial malware simulators are applied. In addition to malicious attacks, we also evaluate the practical accuracy of AV products, exposing them to potentially unwanted applications (PUA or Greyware) and clean files (FP) as well. Our assessment also measures the footprint each security software has on a computer’s performance.