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Inside the ICE IX bot, descendent of Zeus

Aditya Sood and colleagues present an analysis of ICE IX bot, a descendent of the Zeus bot which demonstrates how one bot can give rise to another.

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Tussling with Tussie

There are multiple ways to hide the decoder, such as by forcing Windows to apply a relocation delta, or by using obscure instruction side effects. Now, W32/Tussie shows us a way to hide the encoded data. Peter Ferrie has the details.

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ZAccess detailed analysis

Neo Tan (Fortinet)
Kyle Yang (Fortinet)

Recently, we have seen a new trend in ZAccess: less is more. In around March 2012, the aggressive self-defence technique had disappeared from some variants, and in June 2012, the whole rootkit was removed, making it a completely user-mode piece of…

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IP addresses and privacy-sensitive data: a different point of view

‘[In] the digital realm ... we tread very carefully and avoid reporting [incidents] for fear of divulging sensitive data, i.e. the IP address.' Wout de Natris.

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Researchers discover extent of data collected by iPhone apps

Researchers find that an alarming number of iOS apps access data without the user’s permission.

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VB welcomes

VB welcomes newest member of the team.

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Tiny modularity

Researchers have found a small piece of malware capable of doing just as much as its bigger brothers. Raul Alvarez looks at the structure of the malware, its code injections and modular execution and describes how the tiny ‘Tinba’is capable of doing…

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Unpacking x64 PE+ binaries: introduction part 1

Aleksander Czarnowski describes some of the main differences between the PE and PE+ file formats from the perspective of the binary unpacking process.

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Noteven close

Code virtualization is a popular technique for making malware difficult to reverse engineer and analyse. W32/Noteven uses the technique, but has such a buggy interpreter that it's a wonder the code works at all. Peter Ferrie has the details.

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Where should security reside?

‘It seems logical that, in the future, security must move closer to the information.' Greg Day, Symantec.

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