Sophos security expert Chester Wisniewski was at the Virus Bulletin 2014 conference in Seattle. In this special edition of the Chet Chat, Paul Ducklin puts Chet on the other side of the mic to find out more about both the technology and the ethics of anti-malware research.
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Duping the machine – the cunning malware that throws off researchers
Traditionally, when malware detects that it is not running in a genuine victim setting, it will simply exit immediately. But there’s a certain subset of malware families that are more cunning when they detect an analysis environment…