Merge malware analysis with intelligence sources to enhance research, detection and mitigation in ThreatConnect. Arlington, VA, August 14, 2015 – ThreatConnect, Inc., the leading provider of security services including the ThreatConnect® Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP), today announced a partnership with VMRay for ThreatConnect’s TC Exchange™. Current users of VMRay Analyzer
A key capability for malware is to prevent or delay analysis, usually by implementing dynamic malware analysis detection and evasion. When successful, this can substantially increase the time the malware can continue in the wild undetected, blocked or remediated. While most in-the-wild evasion techniques are rather simple, there also exist
COM Introduction The Component Object Model (COM) is quite an old technology that was introduced by Microsoft in the early 90s. It allows the development and usage of binary software components in a language and architecture independent way. To this end, COM classes are provided by COM servers and can
This article is provided by courtesy of VMRay GmbH. As part of her Summer Tour #NRWVierNull focusing on the progress of digital change, the Prime Minister of the German State of North Rhine-Westphalia, Hannelore Kraft, visited VMRay GmbH in Bochum on 15 July 2015. Cyber security is an important part
Dyre is an advanced banking trojan family that uses phishing to hijack bank accounts from infected machines. According to estimates by researchers, the authors behind have already stolen over a million USD using this malware. It has been around for more than a year and is steadily updated to incorporate
One of the great advantages of VMRay is that its core is completely agnostic to the targeted guest operating system and the underlying hardware platform. To utilize this great feature, we had have been busy working to add additional support for other guest operating systems during the last weeks. VMRay
This article is provided by courtesy of VMRay GmbH. Bochum, Germany: March 18th, 2015 – VMRay GmbH, provider of the fastest and most comprehensive threat analysis capabilities in the market, announced today that it has entered into a technology partnership with CrowdStrike Inc., a leading provider of next-generation endpoint protection,
We published a 20 minute video that demonstrates how VMRay Analyzer can be used to automatically create detailed and comprehensive analysis of dangerous malware threats. To illustrate this process, we take a quick tour on the Wiper malware, that seemed to be involved in the latest Sony breaches.
Introduction Rovnix is currently one of the most prevalent 64-bit rootkits, especially since the source code leaked as part of the Carberp malware. Since then, every malware author has basically been able to create their own custom 64-bit rootkit version and we are therefore constantly seeing new variants in the
Measuring performance of a malware analysis system in “samples per hour” is misleading and does not in any way give an accurate representation of it effectiveness. However, this measure is often used to conceal the significant overhead of such solutions. In practice, the throughput of “samples per hour” almost completely
VMRay Analyzer is currently still in its hot beta phase, however we plan to finish our first product release soon. In the past few weeks, we not only fixed bugs, but also improved our software by adding a number of additional functionalities. As you may already know, our new analyzer
We recently completed the beta version of our malware analysis suite, VMRay Analyzer, and presented it to our pilot customers. The official product release date will be in July 2014, after we have fixed minor bugs in the high-level reports, as well as completed the .PDF and .DOC analysis. We
This article is provided by courtesy of VMRay GmbH. Bochum/Bonn May 15, 2014 – VMRay GmbH has successfully closed its seed financing round. High-Tech Gruenderfonds (HTGF) invests in the development and marketing of the next-generation malware analysis software of VMRay, which has a special focus on complex 64-bit malware such
In its ramp-up to the market launch, VMRay, the next-generation malware-analysis company, is building its management strength and governance by adding two seasoned managers to its advisory board. This is another step towards rounding out the competencies of the company by adding special skills and specific, in particular geographical experiences.
Meike Klinck interviewed Ralf Hund for the “AllesING”-magazine that regularly introduces spinoffs from the HGI institute of the Ruhr-University Bochum. The founder talks about the idea and uniqueness of the VMRay software and about the obstacles and challenges in founding a new company. The interview can be found here: http://www.ing.rub.de/news/news00111.html.de
At this year VB2013 conference Ralf Hund gave a presentation on “Hardware-Assisted System Monitoring“. He described how modern hypervisor extensions can be utilized to realize a performant, transparent and isolated system monitoring. Use cases of this monitoring system are mainly the analysis of malware, especially of highly sophisticated instances such
Carsten Willems and Ralf Hund have been interviewed about their research interests and what they aim to bring to VB2013. The VB2013 conference takes place this autumn (2-4 October) in Berlin, with an exciting programme that covers many of today’s most pertinent security-related topics. In the build-up to the event