Cognitive Research: Learning Detectors of Malicious Network Traffic
This post was authored by Karel Bartos, Vojtech Franc, & Michal Sofka. Malware is constantly evolving and changing. One way to identify malware is by analyzing the...
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Research Spotlight: Detecting Algorithmically Generated Domains
This post was authored by Mahdi Namazifar and Yuxi Pan Once a piece of malware has been successfully installed on a vulnerable system one of the first orders of business is for the malware to reach out to the remote command-and-control (C&C) servers in order to receive further instructions, updates and/or to exfiltrate valuable user […]
Threat Spotlight: Dyre/Dyreza: An Analysis to Discover the DGA
This post was authored by Alex Chiu & Angel Villegas. Overview Banking and sensitive financial information is a highly coveted target for attackers because of the high value and obvious financial implications. In the past year, a large amount of attention has been centered on Point of Sale (PoS) malware due to its major role in […]