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Malware Authors Using New Techniques to Evade Automated Threat Analysis Systems

26

Oct

2012

According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of malware a month, or an average of one million new variants a day.It is impossible to manually analyze such a large number of sample files, so […]

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New Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

18

Sep

2012

Eric Roman has released a blog about the Microsoft Internet Explorer Image Arrays Remote Code Execution Vulnerability, a possible zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that is being exploited in the wild. We have confirmed this vulnerability affects versions 9, 8, and 7 of the Internet Explorer browser. Microsoft has not yet confirmed and released an […]

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AutoSandbox – why are you annoying me?

20

Mar

2012

Does this situation seem familiar? I have just downloaded an awesome application which should contain thousands of new desktop pictures. The site name is www.bestsoftwareforever.com and wow, it must be pretty good. So, I run it and then this avast! AutoSandbox popup appears. Oh guys, why are you annoying me? I know what I am […]

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