Shylock is a financial malware platform discovered by Trusteer in 2011. Like most malware strains, Shylock continues to evolve in order to bypass new defensive technologies put in place by financial institutions and enterprises. While analysing a recent Shylock dropper Trusteer noticed a new trick it uses to evade detection. Namely, it can identify and avoid remote desktop environments - a setup commonly used by researchers when analysing malware.
Suspected malware samples are collected for analysis and often placed onto machines that are isolated in an operations centre ("lab"). Rather than sitting in front of a rack of physical
Suspected malware samples are collected for analysis and often placed onto machines that are isolated in an operations centre ("lab"). Rather than sitting in front of a rack of physical
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