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Malware Evolves to Present New Threats to Developers

Security Boulevard

Malware, or code written for malicious purposes, is evolving. To understand the new dangers malicious code poses to developers, it helps to take a brief look back at the history of malware. Malicious code, or malware, is intentionally written to disrupt, damage, or otherwise inflict undesirable effects on a target system.

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PowerShell: An Attacker’s Paradise

Quick Heal Antivirus

PowerShell was originally intended as a task automation and configuration management program for system administrators. However, it. The post PowerShell: An Attacker’s Paradise appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.

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IT threat evolution Q2 2021

SecureList

We discovered the malware as part of an attack against a high-profile organization in Vietnam. We found the loader for this file so interesting that we decided to base one of the tracks of our Targeted Malware Reverse Engineering course on it. The exploit-chain attempts to install malware in the system through a dropper.