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VB2016 preview: Wild Android Collusions
Most research into and protection against malicious apps focuses on single apps. This makes it interesting for malware authors to use app ‘collusion’: the ability of two (or more) apps to perform an attack in collaboration. Such attacks have previously been demonstrated as proof-of-concepts but had not yet been found in the wild until earlier…
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Small Talks return to the Virus Bulletin Conference
VB2015 was the 25th Virus Bulletin conference and, to celebrate the occasion, we added a third stream to the programme. Dubbed “Small Talks”, these talks were longer than those on the regular programme and took place in a smaller room, which allowed for a more informal discussion. Various subjects were covered, ranging from targeted attacks…
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Small Talks return to the Virus Bulletin Conference
VB2015 was the 25th Virus Bulletin conference and, to celebrate the occasion, we added a third stream to the programme. Dubbed “Small Talks”, these talks were longer than those on the regular programme and took place in a smaller room, which allowed for a more informal discussion. Various subjects were covered, ranging from targeted attacks…
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Research shows web security products perform well against exploit kits
Among the security community a lot of research effort is dedicated to analysing exploit kits and their constantly evolving methods of frustrating researchers while infecting ordinary users with malware. A lot of this research is then used to design and build products that aim to prevent exploit kits from infecting users. But how well do…
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Research shows web security products perform well against exploit kits
Among the security community a lot of research effort is dedicated to analysing exploit kits and their constantly evolving methods of frustrating researchers while infecting ordinary users with malware. A lot of this research is then used to design and build products that aim to prevent exploit kits from infecting users. But how well do…
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Throwback Thursday: Olympic Games
As the world of sport awaits the official opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio tomorrow, any talk of viruses is restricted to concerns surrounding the mosquito-borne, human-infecting Zika virus , with numerous athletes having withdrawn from the Games over infection fears and experts calling for the Games to be moved, while others have…
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Throwback Thursday: Olympic Games
As the world of sport awaits the official opening of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio tomorrow, any talk of viruses is restricted to concerns surrounding the mosquito-borne, human-infecting Zika virus , with numerous athletes having withdrawn from the Games over infection fears and experts calling for the Games to be moved, while others have…
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VB2016 call for last-minute papers opened, discounts announced
Today, we opened the call for last-minute papers for VB2016. The VB2016 conference programme is already chock-a-block with more than 40 talks on a wide range of security subjects – but the security landscape changes quickly and, as in previous years, we have set aside a number of slots for ” last-minute ” papers, dealing with emerging…
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VB2016 call for last-minute papers opened, discounts announced
Today, we opened the call for last-minute papers for VB2016. The VB2016 conference programme is already chock-a-block with more than 40 talks on a wide range of security subjects – but the security landscape changes quickly and, as in previous years, we have set aside a number of slots for ” last-minute ” papers, dealing with emerging…
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Guest Blog: Malicious Scripts Gaining Prevalence in Brazil
In the run up to VB2016, we invited the conference sponsors to write guest posts for our blog. In the second of this series, ESET’s Matías Porolli writes about malicious Visual Basic and JavaScript gaining prevalence in Brazil. Had we looked at the map of malware detections in Brazil a year ago, we would have seen…
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