‘We should expect to see governments creating their own anti-malware products’ Fabio Assolini.
Author of malware behind one of the world's largest botnets receives prison sentence.
Researchers study the psychology of malware warnings.
Rebranding will see McAfee name dropped from security products.
Indian government announces Internet surveillance system.
Medfos is a heavily obfuscated trojan family which downloads modules capable of redirecting search engine results in the most popular browsers. Benjamin Chang and Neo Tan dissect the way the Medfos downloader deploys its downloaded modules, and the function of each.
Sality has been around for many years, yet it is still one of today’s most prevalent pieces of malware. In this two-part article, Raul Alvarez takes a close look at a variant of Sality that not only infects executables but also has some trojan-like attributes.
Xpaj.B is one of the most complex and sophisticated file infectors in the world. It is difficult to detect, disinfect and analyse. In a two-part article, Liang Yuan provides a deep analysis of its infection.
In the latest of his ‘Greetz from Academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock focuses on computer science surveys, looking in particular at one on binary code obfuscations in packer tools.
A brand new instruction set coming to Intel’s processors in the near future has tremendous potential implications both for malware authors and for defenders. Shaun Davenport and Richard Ford describe the SGX technology and how people might use it.
At VB2013 Evgeny Sidorov spoke about three modern approaches used by attackers to embed malicious code into HTTP responses. One such approach was the use of web-server modules for malware distribution. Here, Evgeny and his colleagues describe ‘Effusion’ – a new piece of malware that uses malicious modules for an Nginx web server, and which was used in a massive infection campaign in the third quarter of 2013.
In this month's VBSpam, each of the 18 participating full solutions achieved a very decent spam catch rate - but for some products this came at the cost of blocking legitimate emails, and for three products that was enough to deny them a VBSpam award. Meanwhile, there were five solutions that did not block a single legitimate email and achieved a VBSpam+ award.
Must-attend events in the anti-malware industry - dates, locations and further details.