“What,” asked the speaker. “if Notepad behaved just like you would expect it to, but only for the first hour or so that you used it? What if it began to do different things after that?”
According to Giovanni Vigna, a professor at the University of California in Santa Monica and the head of the Center for CyberSecurity and Seclab there, such possum-like behaviour and long-term thinking represents the future of the malware arms race.
Speaking at IP Expo today, Prof. Vigna outlined scenarios in which an increasingly sophisticated and opaque breed of malicious executable will evolve to ‘mimic’ the behaviour patterns of benign software, in an attempt to avoid wasting its payload behaviour on a sandbox or virtualised environment.
more here.........http://thestack.com/mimicry-in-malware-giovanni-vigna-081014
According to Giovanni Vigna, a professor at the University of California in Santa Monica and the head of the Center for CyberSecurity and Seclab there, such possum-like behaviour and long-term thinking represents the future of the malware arms race.
Speaking at IP Expo today, Prof. Vigna outlined scenarios in which an increasingly sophisticated and opaque breed of malicious executable will evolve to ‘mimic’ the behaviour patterns of benign software, in an attempt to avoid wasting its payload behaviour on a sandbox or virtualised environment.
more here.........http://thestack.com/mimicry-in-malware-giovanni-vigna-081014