Constant Improvement — For Malware
In the on-going battle between malware makers and security vendors, the malware makers are taking a page from the book of legitimate developers and are using QA to test their products to be sure the products are effective. Unfortunately, in this case effective means effective in evading the tools designed to protect systems. Dancho Danchev, writing in the Webroot Threat Blog in a posting entitled, How cybercriminals apply Quality Assurance (QA) to their malware campaigns before launching them, describes how online cyber crime tools that have been used by hackers since 2009. This is a screenshot from one of these online [...]