"Inside the fight against malware attacks"

Protecting systems against malware is an ongoing battle for security researchers as malware authors continue to improve upon the methods of which their malware attacks defeat anti-malware software. As malware authors encrypt their malware programs, the process of analyzing malware require analysts to run malicious code on their own computers in order to discover how the malware manages to compromise a computer network or system, travel throughout a system, and perform actions. A program created by Shabnam Aboughadareh, called SEMU, addresses issues pertaining to the analysis of malware attacks on both low and high technological levels. This article further discusses the processes of analyzing and running malware, problems faced in the analysis of malware programs, and how SEMU addresses these problems. 

The Conversation reports "Inside the fight against malware attacks"