Tag: malware
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VB2016 paper: One-Click Fileless Infection
Over the last few years, we have seen a sharp increase in ‘fileless’ infections, where a machine is compromised without a malicious file ever being written to disk. Though not impossible to detect and prevent, they do require a security product. In a paper entitled “One-click fileless infection” presented at VB2016 in Denver, Symantec researchers…
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VB2016 video: Nymaim: the Untold Story
Every year, the Virus Bulletin conference programme includes a number of ‘last-minute’ papers: presentations on topics that are so hot, they are added to the programme only a few weeks before the start of the conference. While the short time frame means there isn’t enough time to add an accompanying written paper to the conference…
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VB2016 video: Nymaim: the Untold Story
Every year, the Virus Bulletin conference programme includes a number of ‘last-minute’ papers: presentations on topics that are so hot, they are added to the programme only a few weeks before the start of the conference. While the short time frame means there isn’t enough time to add an accompanying written paper to the conference…
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VB2016 paper: Great crypto failures
“More malware is using cryptography, and more malware is using better cryptography,” said Check Point researcher Yaniv Balmas on stage during VB2016. While the increased use of cryptography in general in recent years has been a great development, it is rather frustrating to find malware authors having joined the bandwagon – with ransomware being the ultimate…
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VB2016 paper: Great crypto failures
“More malware is using cryptography, and more malware is using better cryptography,” said Check Point researcher Yaniv Balmas on stage during VB2016. While the increased use of cryptography in general in recent years has been a great development, it is rather frustrating to find malware authors having joined the bandwagon – with ransomware being the ultimate…
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VB2016 paper: Open Source Malware Lab
Security experts aren’t necessarily known for being skilled at predicting the future, but if there’s one prediction they are guaranteed to get right, it’s that there will be a lot of new malware in the coming year. As a consequence, increasing numbers of companies and researchers are likely to turn their attentions to setting up…
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VB2016 paper: Open Source Malware Lab
Security experts aren’t necessarily known for being skilled at predicting the future, but if there’s one prediction they are guaranteed to get right, it’s that there will be a lot of new malware in the coming year. As a consequence, increasing numbers of companies and researchers are likely to turn their attentions to setting up…
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Paper: Spreading techniques used by malware
Malware infections usually start with a user opening an attachment, visiting a link, or simply accessing an infected site with a vulnerable browser. But once malware has infected an endpoint, it often looks for other devices in order to spread further, or at least to include the files on those devices in its malicious encryption…