It’s FRIDAY!!!!!!, the 13th. Usually, the month that falls after this peculiar date is irrelevant. Friday the 13th has always had an ominous connotation throughout time. In computing security, this is based on a particular virus that emerged in the late 1980s and its interesting characteristics. However, we cannot rule out the superstitions that served …
Shapeshifting threats: Polymorphic & Metamorphic Malware
Early malware had specific behaviours and signatures that could be used to track them. These were very characteristic of each of them. For example, the Melissa Virus of 1999 was usually delivered via an email attachment and only invoked when a user opened the attached .doc file. It spread quickly due to mass emailing and …
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