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Malware Manipulates Procedure Prologue and Epilogue to Evade Security

17

Jul

2013

Techniques used by malware developers to evade detection by security software have changed drastically in recent years. Encryption, packers, wrappers, and other methods were effective for various lengths of time. But eventually antimalware programs gained detection techniques to combat these steps.Malware authors next started frequently changing code and other data; now malware binaries are modified […]

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Investigation of a new undocumented instruction trick

25

Jun

2013

While investigating some new malware samples this week, we came across a few interesting files that use a new trick with an undocumented instruction. We had to do a bit of digging around the Intel instructions list to solve this little mystery. While it turned out that the trick itself isn’t effective in complicating debugging […]

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Searches for Stolen iOS data Lead to Malware

14

Sep

2012

On September 3, the AntiSec branch of Anonymous announced their March hack of a Dell Vostro laptop used by an FBI agent. AntiSec discovered a file containing a list of millions of Apple iOS devices, including their Unique Device Identifiers (UDIDs) and personal data for their owners.The hackers did not publish the file NCFTA_iOS_devices_intel.csv, but […]

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