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VB100 certification report: The latest VB100 report details the performance of 34 anti-malware products from 31 different vendors during May and June 2019

The Summer 2019 VBWeb report details the performance of two web security products against live web threats and looks at the current state of the web-based threat landscape.

VBSpam: In the June 2019 VBSpam test 12 full email security solutions and three blacklists of various kinds are put through their paces.

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Research paper: Researchers Jan Sirmer and Adolf Streda look at how a spam campaign sent via the Necurs botnet was delivering the Flawed Ammyy RAT.

Research paper: Powering the distribution of Tesla stealer with PowerShell and VBA macros

Book review: Martijn Grooten reviews Charles Arthur's "Cyber Wars", which looks at seven prominent hacks & attacks, and the lessons we can learn from them.

Research paper: How machine-learning techniques can be applied to distinguish between malicious app collusion and benign app collaboration

Book review: Martijn Grooten reviews "Serious Cryptography", a book for those who really want to understand how cryptography works

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