New Research Paper: Prevalence and impact of low-entropy packing schemes in the malware ecosystem
Detection of malware is a constant battle between the technologies designed to detect and prevent malware and the authors creating them. One common technique adversaries leverage is packing binaries. Packing an executable is similar to applying compression or encryption and can i
Loda RAT Grows Up
By Chris Neal. * Over the past several months, Cisco Talos has observed a malware campaign that utilizes websites hosting a new version of Loda, a remote access trojan (RAT) written in AutoIT. * These websites also host malicious documents that begin a multi-stage infection c
Malvertising: Online advertising's darker side
Executive summary One of the trickiest challenges enterprises face is managing the balance between aggressively blocking malicious advertisements (aka malvertising) and allowing content to remain online, accessible for the average user. The days of installing a basic ad blocker