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Indian government minister has a history of spamming, according to researcher.
Read moreCross-platform execution is one of the promises of Java - but cross-platform infection is probably not what the designers had in mind. Nevertheless, it was clearly in the mind of the author of W32/Java.Grimy, a virus for the Windows platform, which…
Read moreEvgeny Sidorov (Yandex)
Konstantin Otrashkevich (Yandex)
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…
Read moreNeo Tan (Fortinet)
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…
Read moreRichard Ford (Florida Institute of Technology)
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.
Read moreSality 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…
Read moreXpaj.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.
Read moreFabio Assolini (Kaspersky Lab)
‘We should expect to see governments creating their own anti-malware products’ Fabio Assolini.
Read moreIn 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.
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