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The Commoditization of Anti Debugging Features in RATs

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2008-09-03 07:46:00 by Dancho Danchev in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Is it a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) or is it malware ? That's the rhetorical question , since RATs are not supposed to have built-in Virustotal submission for the newly generated server, antivirus software "killing" and firewall bypassing capabilities Taking a peek into some of commodity features aiming to make it harder to analyze the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Beware of Rogue Anti-Malware

2008-08-18 10:16:04 by Editor in Cheap Hack
 
Rogue anti-virus and anti-spyware products are not a new story, but they are a relatively growing threat. One of these threats made some news this week and taught some lessons about just how suspicious you have to be of them. We had heard of XP Antivirus also known by a plethora of name variants, including Antivirus XP and year variants like...
 
 
 
 
 
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Difference Between of Adware, Spyware and Anti-virus

2007-04-18 04:24:00 by jack in adware and spyware
 
Difference Between Adware, Spyware and Anti-virus Adware, spyware and computer virus share some similarities, one of which is that all three are major nuisances for computer users. Let's differentiate the three Spyware is software that does not intentionally harm your computer. What they do is that they create pathways wherein someone else...
 
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Malware Vendor's Site Serving Malware

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2008-02-12 20:31:18 by HASH0x8b333c4 in Dancho Danchev's Blog - Mind Streams of Information Security Knowledge
Even though AvSoft Technologies isn't really enjoying a large market share, making the impact of this malware coming out of their site even bigger, the irony is perhaps what truly matters in the situation. Some press coverage - Hackers Turn Antivirus Site Into Virus Spreader ; Antivirus company's Web site downloads ... a virus ; Hackers seed...
 
 
 
 
 
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Anti-Virus Company Says PeerGuardian is Malware

2008-02-24 23:20:05 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Over the past week, some servers used for updating the anti-virus software NOD32 were labeled as anti-p2p by a popular list maker for PeerGuardian. In response, NOD32s company, ESET, has categorised PG2 as malware in some of its latest updates
 
 
 
 
 
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Symantec - "We don't (just) sell anti-virus".

2007-10-05 13:27:00 by Allen Baranov, CISSP in Security Thoughts
 
I went to a Symantec presentation today to learn about their new End Point Protection and to take a sip of their Kool-Aid They took great pains to make sure that the audience was aware that they do not sell anti-virus software anymore - they sell "end point protection". Which, really, is anti-virus with other stuff The point is that even...
 
 
 
 
 
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Redefining Anti-Virus Software

2008-06-12 10:53:42 by Editor in Digg / Security
 
Anti-virus firms continue to struggle to stand their ground amid a flood of new malicious programs being unleashed each day, a complementary approach to fighting malware is beginning to take root"Interesting white list approach - albeit it's still based on anti-virus (black list approach at the back) it shows a new direction is needed
 
 
 
 
 
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Security Circumvented: My Anti-Virus

2008-06-20 03:31:34 by JJ in Security Uncorked
 
I recently needed to renew the anti-virus subscription on my tablet PC. Of course, Symantec popped up and let me know well in advance, and of course, I waited until the almost-last-day before I renewed When my renewal options appeared, there was a selection to upgrade to the shiny new Norton 360. Woo hoo! It listed all these great new security...
 
 
 
 
 
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New Anti-Cross Site Scripting Library Available

2006-11-27 08:01:00 by Eric Marvets in The Security Samurai
 
For those of you who don't know, Cross Site Scripting or XSS is when an application displays input that originated from the client. This could be a URL, cookie variables, as well as form field variables. Virtually every site is susceptible to these types of attacks, regardless of the server or client environments On every penetration test I...