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REMnux: The Linux Toolkit for Reverse Engineering and Malware Analysis

eSecurity Planet

REMnux is a free community distribution that ethical hackers, security researchers, and many other security pros can leverage to build their own labs and speed up malware analysis. As the founder and primary maintainer of REMnux, Lenny Zeltser likes to say: REMnux is for malware analysis as Kali is for penetration testing.

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How You Can Start Learning Malware Analysis

Lenny Zeltser

Malware analysis sits at the intersection of incident response, forensics, system and network administration, security monitoring, and software engineering. You can get into this field by building upon your existing skills in any of these disciplines. Understand Where You Currently Fit Into the Malware Analysis Process.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation. These included PClock, CryptoLocker 2.0, Crypt0L0cker, and TorrentLocker.

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10 everyday machine learning use cases

IBM Big Data Hub

Voice-based queries use Natural Language Processing (NLP) and sentiment analysis for speech recognition. Antivirus programs may use AI and ML techniques to detect and block malware. AI can help strategize, modernize, build and manage existing applications, too, leading to more efficiency and creating opportunities for innovation.

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What is Incident Response? Ultimate Guide + Templates

eSecurity Planet

Computer worms: Worms are self-replicating malware that can spread through networks or appear as legitimate programs that contain hidden or malicious code. Ransomware attacks: Ransomware is malware extortion attack that encrypts a victim’s files, demanding a ransom payment in exchange for the decryption key.

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ROUNDTABLE: What happened in privacy and cybersecurity in 2021 — and what’s coming in 2022

The Last Watchdog

As developers’ data protection education advances, and as more data leaks and privacy violations occur due to faulty internal systems, we will start to see a growing understanding that, just like cryptography, most people should not be building their own privacy technologies. Erkang Zheng , CEO, JupiterOne.

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