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The ecology of Malware

Proceedings of the 2008 New Security Paradigms Workshop, 2008
The fight against malicious software (or malware, which includes everything from worms to viruses to botnets) is often viewed as an "arms race." Conventional wisdom is that we must continually "raise the bar" for the malware creators. However, the multitude of malware has itself evolved into a complex environment, and properties not unlike those of ...
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Roya Ensafi, Stephanie Forrest, Joshua Ladau, Bilal Shebaro   +4 more
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Malware behavior image for malware variant identification

2014 International Symposium on Biometrics and Security Technologies (ISBAST), 2014
Several methods have been devised by researchers to facilitate malware analysis and one of them is through malware visualization. Malware visualization is a field that focuses on representing malware features in a form of visual cues that could be used to convey more information about a particular malware.
Syed Zainudeen Mohd Shaid, Mohd Aizaini Maarof   +1 more
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Malware month

Communications of the ACM, 2003
August 2003: SoBig, W32/Blaster, and the malware month of the millennium.
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This business of malware

Information Security Technical Report, 2004
Abstract For the past few years there has been a shift away from proof-of-concept, “bragging-rights” or destructive virus and Trojans, to that of malware designed for the purpose of making money for the author. This paper describes many of the methods by which this underground economy turns a profit, detailing specific well-known malware and the ...
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The evolution of malware

Network Security, 2016
After the first personal computers were introduced as kits in 1975, the computing world only had six years before it would be introduced to the very first computer virus, known as Elk Cloner.Computer viruses appeared not long after the introduction of the PC and have become ever more sophisticated and troublesome.Fred Touchette of AppRiver charts the ...
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Malware

2007
The Trojan horse can be used in cyber-warfare and cyber-terrorism, as recent attacks in the field of industrial espionage have shown. To coordinate methods of defence a categorisation of the threat posed by Trojan horses in the shape of a list of tuples is proposed.
Stefan Kiltz, Andreas Lang, Jana Dittmann   +2 more
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Types of Malware and Malware Distribution Strategies

2015
The goal of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of different types of malware that have been used to carry out cyber-attacks. In most cases, we will provide examples of each category of malware. Moreover, malware tends to be distributed in different ways and propagate in different ways.
V. S. Subrahmanian, Michael Ovelgönne, Tudor Dumitras, B. Aditya Prakash   +3 more
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Optimising Malware

2006 IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference, 2006
José M. Fernandez 0001, Pierre-Marc Bureau   +1 more
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A Survey of Adversarial Attack and Defense Methods for Malware Classification in Cyber Security

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2023
Senming Yan, Jing Ren, Limin Sun
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Malware intelligence: beyond malware analysis

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2019
Ekta Gandotra, Divya Bansal, Sanjeev Sofat   +2 more
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