Trojanized Game Installers Deploy Cryptocurrency Miner in Large-Scale StaryDobry Attack

Users who are on the lookout for popular games were lured into downloading trojanized installers that led to the deployment of a cryptocurrency miner on compromised Windows hosts. The large-scale activity has been codenamed StaryDobry by Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, which first detect...

New Technique Complicates Mutex Malware Analysis

Malware analysts have had a measure of success using static mutex values as a fingerprint for detecting and blocking malicious code. These values are used in programming to enable software to synchronize communication between multiple threads or processes, or to determine whether another instance...

Malware Detection Must Soon Recognize Evasive Behaviors

Criminals and advanced attackers have long fortified malware with features that help malicious code stay hidden from analysis. We’ve seen malware samples that determine if they’re being executed in a sandbox or virtual machine, or over remote desktop protocol connections, and stay quiet until...