Showing posts with label Malware Analysis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malware Analysis. Show all posts

Monday, February 17, 2014

[cert] Prioritizing Malware Analysis

Hi, this is Jose Morales, researcher in the CERT:CES team. In early 2012, a backdoor Trojan malware named Flame was discovered in the wild. When fully deployed, Flame proved very hard for malware researchers to analyze. In December of that year, Wired magazine reported that before Flame had been unleashed, samples of the malware had been lurking, undiscovered, in repositories for at least two years. As Wired also reported, this was not an isolated event.