Newly Discovered Mac Malware with Ancient Code Spying on Biotech Firms

Security researchers have discovered a rare piece of Mac-based espionage malware that relies on outdated coding practices but has been used in some previous real-world attacks to spy on biomedical research center computers. Dubbed Fruitfly, the malware has remained undetected for years on macOS...

[SECURITY] Fedora 21 Update: mingw-binutils-2.25-1.fc21

Cross compiled binutils utilities like 'strip', 'as', 'ld' which understand Windows executables and DLLs...

FBI to Open Up Malware Investigator Portal to External Researchers

SEATTLE–The FBI has developed an internal malware-analysis tool, somewhat akin to the systems used by antimalware companies, and plans to open the system up to external security researchers, academics and others. The system is known as Malware Investigator and is designed to allow FBI agents and...

Reputation of Windows Executables: Known Process(es)

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Reputation of Windows Executables: Unknown Process(es)

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Google to Add Warnings About Malicious Executables to Chrome

Google is testing a new feature in its Chrome browser that will warn users when they attempt to download a potentially malicious executable file. The feature is an extension of the existing Web-based security mechanisms the company has integrated into Chrome and the Safe Browsing API and will be...

VERA v0.3 - Visualizing Executables for Reversing and Analysis tool !

"VERA is a Visualizing Executables for Reversing and Analysis tool. It is a tool for reverse engineering Windows executables. It is used in conjunction with the Ether framework to generate visualizations to help with the RE process." This is the official change log: Added processing of trace file...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : clamav (MDKSA-2006:138)

Damian Put discovered a boundary error in the UPX extraction module in ClamAV which is used to unpack PE Windows executables. This could be abused to cause a Denial of Service issue and potentially allow for the execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running clamscan or clam...