An academic paper to be presented today at IEEE posits that analysis of network signals provides a better early warning of malware than infections than current practices.

A new crawler from Shodan and Recorded Future called Malware Hunter seeks out command and control servers managing endpoints infected with remote access Trojans and other malware.

Developers behind the malicious downloader Hancitor have bolstered the malware again, this time with new delivery approaches that make it more difficult to detect.

When it comes to detecting OS X malware, the future may not be rooted in machine learning algorithms, but patterns and heatmap visualization, a researcher posits. In an academic paper published by Virus Bulletin on Monday, Vincent Van Mieghem, a former student at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, describes how a recurring pattern...