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Yaniv Balmas (Check Point Software Technologies)
Shahar Tal (Check Point Software Technologies)
Ron Davidson (Check Point Software Technologies)
APT campaigns are typically described with awe surrounding the technical achievements enabled by the level of resources and capacity conceivably available only to nation-state governments and intelligence agencies, often dubbed APT groups. These…
Read moreAlexander Adamov (NioGuard Security Lab)
These days, we see an increasing number of new pieces of ransomware for Android devices. They adopt new social engineering, communication and encryption techniques such as the use of Tor and advanced encryption algorithms (RSA-1024 and even elliptic…
Read moreIn mid-1997, new viruses and variants were appearing at over 250 per month, and according to Peter Morley, "Any organization which cannot process 300 viruses per month in times of stress, has no chance of keeping in the game." He split anti-virus…
Read moreBeing able to find files that are similar to a particular file is quite useful, although it can be difficult to handle at scale. It can often require an infeasible number of comparisons, which need to take place outside of a database. In an attempt…
Read moreIn November 2003, Martin Lee summarized from a UK perspective the various legislative attempts to ban the abuse of email by law.
Read moreIn February 2000, distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks disrupted some of the largest websites – CNN, MSN, Yahoo and others – sites designed to serve millions of pages per day. So Nick FitzGerald asked: what are DDoS attacks? How might they…
Read moreAditya K. Sood and Rohit Bansal look at a different side of an exploit kit: the interface used by the malware authors who rely on exploit kits to get their malware installed on victims' machines.
Read moreThe banking trojan Shifu appears to inherit some of its features from several other well-known banking trojans. Floser Bacurio and Wayne Low decided to take a close look at one of its droppers.
Read moreIn July 2002, Andrew Lee explained why an effective hoax could be as damaging as a mass-mailed fast-burning virus, and questioned whether we should begin to classify hoaxes as malware.
Read moreThanks mainly to the marketing efforts of the anti-virus industry around the world, in 1993 the true extent of the computer virus problem has been efficiently concealed beneath a ragbag of pseudo-scientific projections, surveys, reports, forecasts…
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