On September 18, Cisco’s Talos team published that Avast’s recently acquired subsidiary Piriform was leveraged to deliver malware to unsuspecting victims via its IT utility tool, CCleaner. For
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Minerva is proud to officially release Mystique – a free, open-source tool for automatically extracting mutex infection markers from malware for vaccination. You can download the tool from
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We can immunize computer systems against some infections by deploying vaccines that fool malware into believing the endpoint is already infected. This premise has been lingering in my mind
For too long, antivirus vendors didn’t innovate fast enough, and more and more companies started to question the effectiveness of AV. Understandably, there are now several vendors out there
In any cyber attack, the longer an attacker can remain undetected, the more pervasive, intrusive, and destructive they can be. So, the search is constantly on for new ways to compromise and take
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Throughout the history of combat and military engagement, there are plenty of stories how a smaller force was able to overcome a larger force through the use of trickery and deception.
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Being a software engineer nowadays isn’t what it used to be a couple of decades ago – a lot of questions have a solution or a code example available online. And while some of us may take code
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During the last 12 hours, a new ransomware campaign is causing mayhem in what appears to be a one of the most catastrophic and aggressive ransomware attacks ever seen.
The ransomware is
Modern cyber-attacks against well-defended enterprises are not as simple as you may think. They are comprised of many components in charge of different tasks. For example, if an attacker wishes
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Last week everybody talked about the WannaCry ransomware, a non-evasive ransomware which exploited vulnerable servers to propagate, successfully infecting anything from digital billboards to the
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