[pchelpers] News:Hackers Use New Tricks to Evade Detection

By Erika Morphy
www.TechNewsWorld.com
Part of the ECT News Network
11/22/06 4:24 PM PT

An increasing number of hackers build code that can detect when their 
virus is being run on a virtual machine. "This isn't a terribly new 
twist, but I have been seeing an increase over the last six weeks," said 
Roger Thompson, CTO of Exploit Prevention Labs. The trend is bound to 
continue as hackers tend to adopt proven strategies.

Hackers are incorporating virtual machine detection into their Trojans, 
worms and other malware in order to thwart antivirus vendors and virus 
Stop spam, spyware and viruses with Barracuda Networks' free evaluation 
unit. researchers, according to a note published this week by the SANS 
Institute Internet Storm Center.

Researchers often use virtual machines to detect hacker Latest News 
about hacker activities.

Virtual machines -- software that mimics a computer's hardware -- are 
useful for virus-testing, explained Roger Thompson, CTO of Exploit 
Prevention Labs. "You can run a virus to see what it does and then 
delete it when you are finished," he told TechNewsWorld.

An increasing number of hackers build code that can detect when their 
virus is being run on a virtual machine. "This isn't a terribly new 
twist, but I have been seeing an increase over the last six weeks," 
Thompson added.

"Hackers know there is no real reason why an average computer user would 
use a virtual machine, as they are about one-third slower," he explained.

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