‘The BYOD concept needs a maturity model to ensure there is a clear path to increased organizational security’ Jeff Debrosse, Western Governors University
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Recently, the Pony trojan (a.k.a. FareIt) has been observed installing a new Zeus sample on users’ machines. Jie Zhang takes a look at the new packer tricks that are used by this latest Zeus sample.
The Floxif DLL file infector implements both anti‑static- and anti-dynamic-analysis techniques. Raul Alvarez describes how.
Sirefef is a fast-paced malware family. It frequently changes its obfuscated packer layer in order to avoid detection by AV scanners and to impede reverse engineering. Tim Liu present the technical processes he and his team followed during analysis and examines the anti-debug/emulation techniques used.
Gabor Szappanos started with two fairly incomplete sources of information about the latest Blackhole server version: the server-side source code from old versions and the outgoing flow of malware. He describes how, using these sources, he was able to sketch a reasonably good picture of what goes on inside the server hosting the Blackhole exploit kit.
John Hawes reports the results of this month's VB100 test on Windows 8 Pro - finding a decent set of performances from products on this brand new platform.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.