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Six flags over Texas

The last week of September saw a sizeable portion of the world's anti-malware experts decamp to Dallas. Helen Martin reports on the 22nd Virus Bulletin International Conference.

Is AV the old dog?

‘Anti-virus does a very good job, but ... missing once is seen as failure in general.' Greg Day, Symantec.

VGrep: the rose revived

VB relaunches VGrep tool.

EU’s biggest cyber test a success

European banks, information security agencies and governments participate in Europe’s biggest cyber security test.

Unpacking x64 PE+ binaries part 3: IDA, graphs and binary instrumentation

In the first two parts of this tutorial series Aleksander Czarnowski has demonstrated some useful manual tricks that are helpful in unpacking x64 binaries. In this third article he describes one more manual unpacking approach then moves on to some…

Inside a Black Hole: Part 1

Gabor Szappanos (Sophos)

The most actively deployed exploit kit over the past year has without doubt been the Blackhole exploit kit. Gabor Szappanos attempts to fill in the (black)holes in our knowledge about this threat. In this article he covers how the server-side code…

Cridex botnet preview

Neo Tan (Fortinet)

Carmen Liang and Neo Tan focus on a detailed analysis of the Cridex banking trojan's injection routine, communication protocol, encryption scheme and working mechanism in order to shed light on the development path of the three most recent…

Operation Desolation

Paul Baccas (Sophos)

Paul Baccas reviews a short story by Windows systems internals expert and Microsoft Technical Fellow, Mark Russinovich: Operation Desolation.

Filename: BUGGY.COD.E

Raul Alvarez takes a close look at a recently discovered piece of malware that infects documents and executable files at the same time.

Trojan Horse

Paul Baccas (Sophos)

Paul Baccas reviews Mark Russinovich's latest malware-themed thriller, Trojan Horse.