Googles malware scanning service VirusTotal can be employed to find clues about the identity of malware creators that test their viruses before deploying them in the wild. A security researcher (@9bplus) spent about five years monitoring the behavior of certain uploaders, gleaning information from the submitted data in order to connect them to threat actors […]
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Security researchers found that a new variant of the malware family BlackEnergy has been uploaded to VirusTotal, first from Ukraine, and a few minutes later, someone from Belgium checked the file. F-Secure notes in a blog post that on Friday someone submitted to Googles VirusTotal a ZIP archive containing an executable file having Microsoft Words […]
Google-owned VirusTotal is now officially available as a native OS X utility that lets Mac users scan and analyze suspicious files and URLs to quickly detect viruses, worms, trojans, and all kinds of malware. The tool is a free download for all Mac users running OS X Lion or newer. Google makes the news official […]
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