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The untimely death of security researcher Péter Ször sent shockwaves across anti-malware community last month. Some of those who knew him best pay tribute to a brilliant mind and a true gentleman.
Read moreEddy Willems presents a round up of the 22nd EICAR Conference, held in Hannover last month.
Read moreViruses for Java are relatively rare, and parasitic viruses for Java are even rarer. The Java/Handjar virus infects Java applications by placing its virus code inside a JAR file and including a reference to the virus class file. Peter Ferrie has the…
Read moreThe Android/FakeKakao trojan monitors incoming and outgoing SMS messages, sends SMS spam and gathers sensitive information as well as incorporating anti-debugging and anti-emulator tricks and disabling some security software. Zhe Li and Dong Xie take…
Read moreUK starts recruitment for Cyber Reserve Unit; India plans to increase number of reverse engineering professionals.
Read moreFinnish Ministry of Foreign affairs breached over four-year period.
Read moreOnly 17% of respondents in Ernst & Young survey say their company’s information security function fully meets the needs of their organization.
Read morePython obfuscation is relatively rare. In the latest of his ‘Greetz from academe’ series, highlighting some of the work going on in academic circles, John Aycock takes a look at a research paper in which the authors reverse engineered a 'hardened'…
Read moreNeurevt is a relatively new HTTP bot that already has a lot of functionalities along with an extendable and flexible infrastructure. Zhongchun Huo takes a detailed look at its infrastructure, communication protocol and encryption scheme.
Read moreWhen one has a nice idea – such as a tricky method for encoding data – it is common to take that idea and improve on it. It is rare to see someone take such an idea and degenerate it, but that’s exactly what we see in W32/Tussie.B. Peter Ferrie…
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