Hackaday

Making A Virtual Machine Look Like Real Hardware To Malware

Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains naughty code. Unfortunately it’s generally rather easy to detect whether or ...
Computerworld

Malware no longer avoids virtual machines

Many malicious software programs used to make a quick exit on virtual machines, a tactic designed to avoid a security check. But that isn’t the case anymore, according Symantec research. As companies ...
Redmond Magazine

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Adds Agentless Virtual Machine Malware Scanning

Microsoft announced on Thursday that it has added agentless malware scanning for servers hosting virtual machines. The new agentless malware scanning capability is available to organizations that have ...
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Russian hackers hit Windows machines via Linux VMs with new custom malware

Curly COMrades deployed Alpine Linux VMs on Windows hosts to hide reverse-shell malware activity VM traffic tunneled via host IP, bypassing traditional EDR and masking outbound communications Targets ...