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  • Throwback Thursday: Malware taking a bit(coin) more than we bargained for

    In late spring of 2011, a sudden rise in the price of Bitcoin – reaching almost US$30, up from less than $1 barely a month earlier – attracted the attention of malware authors. They added mining capabilities to their malicious creations and made them look for Bitcoin wallets, while many websites added JavaScript code that used…

  • Throwback Thursday: Malware taking a bit(coin) more than we bargained for

    In late spring of 2011, a sudden rise in the price of Bitcoin – reaching almost US$30, up from less than $1 barely a month earlier – attracted the attention of malware authors. They added mining capabilities to their malicious creations and made them look for Bitcoin wallets, while many websites added JavaScript code that used…

  • Meltdown and Spectre attacks mitigated by operating system updates

    We wish all our readers a very happy and very secure 2018! The latter part will not come without some serious work though. We are not even four days into the new year and we have already learned of two major proof-of-concept attacks affecting a very large number of processors, forcing operating system developers to…

  • Meltdown and Spectre attacks mitigated by operating system updates

    We wish all our readers a very happy and very secure 2018! The latter part will not come without some serious work though. We are not even four days into the new year and we have already learned of two major proof-of-concept attacks affecting a very large number of processors, forcing operating system developers to…

  • VB2017 preview: Stuck between a ROC and a hard place

    Authors of security software in general, and anti-virus software in particular, have always needed to find the right balance between a high detection rate and a low false positive rate – something that has become even more important with advances in machine-learning detection technologies. Making the model too strict will result in false positives, while making…

  • VB2017 preview: Stuck between a ROC and a hard place

    Authors of security software in general, and anti-virus software in particular, have always needed to find the right balance between a high detection rate and a low false positive rate – something that has become even more important with advances in machine-learning detection technologies. Making the model too strict will result in false positives, while making…

  • A look at the VB2016 sponsors

    Today, we are exactly one month away from the start of VB2016 , the 26th Virus Bulletin International Conference, which is to take place 5-7 October in Denver, Colorado. We thought this was a good moment to highlight the sponsors of the conference. We are excited to be sponsored by such a broad range of…

  • A look at the VB2016 sponsors

    Today, we are exactly one month away from the start of VB2016 , the 26th Virus Bulletin International Conference, which is to take place 5-7 October in Denver, Colorado. We thought this was a good moment to highlight the sponsors of the conference. We are excited to be sponsored by such a broad range of…

  • Paper: Windows 10 patching process may leave enterprises vulnerable to zero-day attacks

    Aryeh Goretsky gives advice on how to adapt to Windows 10’s patching strategy. Patching is hard, especially when the code base is old and the bugs are buried deeply. This was highlighted once again this week when Microsoft released a patch for a vulnerability that was thought to have been patched almost five years ago,…

  • Microsoft no longer publishes advance notifications for its Patch Tuesdays

    Company unhappy with Google going full disclosure on privilege escalation vulnerability. Tomorrow is the second Tuesday of the month and, as most people reading this blog will know, this means Microsoft will release security updates for its software products. But this “Patch Tuesday” will be slightly different from previous ones, as the company has stopped…