Researchers Discovery Data-Stealing Malware That Likes to Nap

Researchers at FireEye’s Malware Intelligence Lab say they’ve found malware that attempts to evade detection with extended sleep calls and uses “the fast flux technique” to hide the attacker’s identity. They are calling the malicious downloader “Trojan Nap” and notes it uses a technique akin to t...

New Malware Can't Be Caught Napping

The aptly named Trojan Nap, a stealthy type of malware recently discovered by researchers at FireEye is able to evade detection methods by tricking scanners into thinking it’s asleep. This is according to researchers Abhishek Singh and Ali Islam with the California-based security firm who wrote o...