Multifunction printers (MFPs) have been common in offices for years. They let employees print, scan, and copy documents. Two separate talks at the 28th Chaos Communications Congress (28c3) show how attackers can infect these trusted office devices. Hacking MFPs In Andrei Costin’s presentation “Hacking MFPs,” he covered the history of printer and copier hacks from the Read more…
Tags: Malware research, PostScript, Printers, white hat hackers
At McAfee Labs every day we monitor millions of intrusion prevention systems (IPS) alerts from our sensors around the world. From these alerts, we often see interesting global data and trends. Recently, ISC noticed a sudden decline of Slammer traffic in the wild, which we also noticed on our sensors. The infamous Slammer was a Read more…
Tags: host intrusion prevention, IPS, malware, Malware research, Worms
One common technique used by malware researchers is to analyze a sample using virtual machines. In recent years, malware developers have created “checks” against environments and common malware-analysis tools. If the malware detects a security application, the former will not execute or will execute a deceptive function. I recently came across some common checks for: Read more…
Tags: bueno, malware, Malware research, pedro bueno
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