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Cathal Mullaney (Symantec)
Sayali Kulkarni (Symantec)
In their VB2014 paper, Cathal Mullaney and Sayali Kulkarni demonstrate that targeting Linux-based Apache web servers is an active and extremely effective method of malware infection. They present an overview of Linux malware and a technical analysis…
Read morePeter Kalnai (Avast Software)
Jaromir Horejsi (Avast Software)
The Blackbeard/Pigeon clickbot follows the path that was previously set by ZeroAccess. It uses a sophisticated method to stay persistent in a victim’s computer. Analysing this kind of threat is not a straightforward task, because the entire process…
Read moreAdrian Stefan Popescu (Bitdefender)
Gheorghe Jescu (Bitdefender)
An increasing number of developers are using certificates issued by Certificate Authorities (CAs) to create a more trustworthy environment for users. Although certificates should be used by legitimate developers only, we are seeing an increasing…
Read moreEric Koeppen (IBM)
Exfiltration of data has been a feature of many attacks, where confidential customer information has been leaked to malicious actors - such infections can have disastrous effects on a company’s brand, customer loyalty, and competitive advantage. In…
Read moreXinran Wang (Shape Security)
Yao Zhao (Shape Security)
It is reported that more than 1,400 financial institutions have been targeted by attackers using banking trojans, and the top 15 targeted financial institutions were attacked by more than 50 per cent of the trojans in 2013. One major tactic of…
Read moreFanny Lalonde Lévesque (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
Erwann Traourouder (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
François Menet (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
Jean-Yves Marion (Université de Lorraine)
Obfuscation techniques have become increasingly prevalent in malware programs as tools to thwart reverse engineering efforts and evade signature-based detection by security products. Among the most popular methods is the use of packers, which are…
Read moreYaniv 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…
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