Sandboxing is a relatively new trend in malware analysis. It allows companies, such as antivirus vendors, to execute malicious malware in an environment where it can’t do any real damage. By watching what the executable does, security researchers can identify whether the software is malicious or if it’s a legitimate application users genuinely want to […]

The Gameover ZeuS Trojan has been updated with functionality targeting bitcoin wallets. Researchers with F-Secure spotted a variant of the malware that includes code to read and write to Bitcoin wallets. It also hooks into the process by which the wallet is encrypted, stealing the password and thwarting encryption. This is just another twist for […]