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By packing their malicious executables, malware authors can be sure that when they are opened in a disassembler they will not show the correct sequence of instructions, thus making malware analysis a more lengthy and difficult process. Continuing on…
Read moreUS Justice Dept. releases details of two-year operation involving undercover carding forum.
Read moreFTC says data breaches occurred as a result of group failing to maintain reasonable security on its networks.
Read moreAditya Sood and Richard Enbody discuss some of the different techniques that are used by present-day malware to circumvent protection mechanisms.
Read moreNeo Tan (Fortinet)
The Andromeda botnet recruits its bots thanks to four key elements - compromised websites, an exploit kit, a downloader and a mailing engine - linked by four sequential phases. Neo Tan takes a closer look.
Read moreRecent years have been marked by an explosive growth of social networks, with Facebook becoming one of the most attractive channels for cybercriminal activity. Alin Damian analyses some of the malicious domains extracted from Facebook applications…
Read moreSome virus writers try to find obscure side effects of instructions in an attempt to confuse virus analysts. Sometimes they succeed, and sometimes we already know about the side effects. The latter is the case with the technique used in the…
Read moreWith content-based anti-spam technologies decreasing in efficiency, Marius Tibeica and Adrian Toma propose a fingerprinting algorithm that maps similar text inputs to similar signatures.
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