Installing various hooks into the victim system is an important attacking strategy employed by malware, including spyware, rootkits, stealth backdoors, and others. In order to def...
Software keyloggers are a fast growing class of malware often used to harvest confidential information. One of the main reasons for this rapid growth is the possibility for unpriv...
Stefano Ortolani, Cristiano Giuffrida, Bruno Crisp...
Modern malware often hide the malicious portion of their program code by making it appear as data at compiletime and transforming it back into executable code at runtime. This obf...
Paul Royal, Mitch Halpin, David Dagon, Robert Edmo...
The "conversion rate" of spam -- the probability that an unsolicited e-mail will ultimately elicit a "sale" -- underlies the entire spam value proposition. How...
Chris Kanich, Christian Kreibich, Kirill Levchenko...