anti-malware

Pierluigi Paganini May 02, 2018
Mysterious findings emerged from the analysis of the SiliVaccine North Korea’s antivirus software

Security experts at Check Point that analyzed North Korea’s antivirus software SiliVaccine discovered it is based on a 10-year-old anti-malware engine developed by Trend Micro. Check Point received the very rare sample of North Korea’s SiliVaccine antivirus software from the freelance journalist Martyn Williams. The researchers discovered the SiliVaccine application contained “large chunks of 10+-year-old antivirus engine code […]