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  • VB2015 ‘Steganoprague’ competition

    Use your steganography-detection skills and win a pile of books. As VB2015 is about to begin, we announce the second part of the ‘ Steganoprague ‘ competition. In this part, you will have to find URLs hidden by others inside an image provided by us. The puzzle can be played by anyone, but if you…

  • Throwback Thursday: The First International Virus Bulletin Conference

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to October 1991 to take a look back at the first ever VB Conference: VB’91 in Jersey. With VB2015 , the 25th Virus Bulletin International Conference, just days away, we decided to take a look back at the first ever VB Conference: VB’91 in Jersey. Next week,…

  • Researchers seek ransomware samples for their generic solution

    VB2015 presentation to include demonstration of technique against recent samples. ‘The scary hack that’s on the rise’ is how Wired ‘s Kim Zetter described ransomware in an overview article posted yesterday. Indeed, encrypting your files and demanding a ransom to decrypt them has become a very lucrative cybercriminal enterprise. Of course, the best defence against…

  • Throwback Thursday: Virus Writer and Distributors ‘Attributable Viruses’

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to July 1990, when VB looked at virus origins and some of the rare cases of attributable viruses. This week saw the confession of a former teenage virus writer: the author of the Leprosy and Leprosy.B viruses, which afflicted computer users in the early 90s, confessed all…

  • VB2015 last-minute papers announced

    Ten talks covering hot research added to the VB2015 programme. There are just over two weeks to go until more than 400 security professionals descend on Prague for VB2015, the 25th Virus Bulletin International Conference. With the addition of ten last-minute papers, the conference programme is now almost complete: two keynotes (by Ross Anderson and…

  • Paper: Custom packer defeats multiple automation systems

    Combination of anti-automation, anti-VM and anti-reverse engineering to make researchers’ lives harder. Ever since the number of new malware samples became so large we could no longer list them in Virus Bulletin magazine, security researchers have been looking at ways to automate analysis. And ever since then, malware authors have been trying to find ways…

  • Throwback Thursday: Computer Viruses: Electronically Transmitted Disease?

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to March 2003, when VB reported on a piece of research investigating the psychological toll inflicted by computer viruses. One could argue that there is more to be feared from the malware infections of today than those of yesteryear — after all, today’s malware may lead to…

  • VB2015: some important information

    Last-minute papers, steganography competition and foosball tournament. We’re just a little over a month away from the beginning of VB2015 , the 25th Virus Bulletin International Conference. If you haven’t already registered, why not do so now? Whether you have already registered or are thinking of doing so, there are some important things that are…

  • Throwback Thursday: Safe Hex in the 21st Century

    This Throwback Thursday, we turn the clock back to July 2000, when we were already being warned that virus scanners were no longer enough. How many times have we heard commentators claim that anti-virus is dead? After all, in the current threat landscape, who would use a system that relies solely on signatures of previously…

  • Paper: Not a GAMe maKER

    Raul Alvarez performs low-level analysis of information-stealing trojan. The Gamker information-stealing trojan (also known as Shiz) has been around for a few years. It made the news back in 2013 when it was found to target SAP applications. Today, we publish an article by Fortinet researcher Raul Alvarez who performed a low-level analysis of the…