Tag: android
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VB2018 video: Triada: the past, the present and the (hopefully not existing) future
From NotPetya to Shadowpad, supply chain attacks have become a serious and hard-to-fight security problem. One prominent type of supply chain attack involves the pre-installation of malware on (often) cheap Android devices. At VB2018 in Montreal, Google researcher Łukasz Siewierski talked about one such case: that of the multi-purpose ‘Triada’ trojan. First discovered by Kaspersky…
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VB2018 video: Triada: the past, the present and the (hopefully not existing) future
From NotPetya to Shadowpad, supply chain attacks have become a serious and hard-to-fight security problem. One prominent type of supply chain attack involves the pre-installation of malware on (often) cheap Android devices. At VB2018 in Montreal, Google researcher Łukasz Siewierski talked about one such case: that of the multi-purpose ‘Triada’ trojan. First discovered by Kaspersky…
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VB2018 preview: Workshops
The Virus Bulletin Conference is first and foremost a place to learn: about new threats, about the tools used to detect and fight them, and to learn about (and get to know) the people that matter in the fast-changing world of threat intelligence and research. This year, you can also learn about some essential techniques…
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VB2018 preview: Workshops
The Virus Bulletin Conference is first and foremost a place to learn: about new threats, about the tools used to detect and fight them, and to learn about (and get to know) the people that matter in the fast-changing world of threat intelligence and research. This year, you can also learn about some essential techniques…
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VB2018 preview: Unpacking the packed unpacker: reversing an Android anti-analysis library
Seven years ago, the first VB conference paper on Android malware looked at what was then a new, but growing trend. Since then both the threat and the research community have grown enormously, and every VB conference since has featured several talks on Android malware. VB2018 is no exception. One of this year’s Android talks…
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VB2018 preview: Unpacking the packed unpacker: reversing an Android anti-analysis library
Seven years ago, the first VB conference paper on Android malware looked at what was then a new, but growing trend. Since then both the threat and the research community have grown enormously, and every VB conference since has featured several talks on Android malware. VB2018 is no exception. One of this year’s Android talks…
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New paper: Does malware based on Spectre exist?
The discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks in January cast a long shadow over the year, with many of the issued security patches having their own problems and several new variants of the two attacks having been discovered. Yet many questions about the attacks remain unanswered. In a presentation at the inaugural Pass the…
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New paper: Does malware based on Spectre exist?
The discovery of the Spectre and Meltdown attacks in January cast a long shadow over the year, with many of the issued security patches having their own problems and several new variants of the two attacks having been discovered. Yet many questions about the attacks remain unanswered. In a presentation at the inaugural Pass the…
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VB2017 paper: Android reverse engineering tools: not the usual suspects
Within a few years, Android malware has grown from a relatively small threat – the first VB conference talk on Android , in 2011, mentioned fewer than 100 malware families – to a huge problem involving more than three million new malware samples a year. The subject has been a regular one on the VB conference programme,…
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VB2017 paper: Android reverse engineering tools: not the usual suspects
Within a few years, Android malware has grown from a relatively small threat – the first VB conference talk on Android , in 2011, mentioned fewer than 100 malware families – to a huge problem involving more than three million new malware samples a year. The subject has been a regular one on the VB conference programme,…