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Reverse Engineering Malware, Part 4: Windows Internals

November 26, 2023November 26, 2023Occupy The Web

Welcome back to my Reverse Engineering Malware series. In general, reverse engineering of malware is done on Windows systems. That’s because despite recent inroads by Linux and the Mac OS, Windows systems still comprise over 90% of all computing systems in the world. As such, well over 90% of malware is designed to compromise Windows […]

Reverse Engineering Malware, Part 3: IDA Pro Introduction

November 26, 2023September 25, 2024Occupy The Web

Welcome back to my Reverse Engineering Malware course! This course is designed for those of you who want to ascend to the pinnacle of Digital Forensics and Cyber Security. There are many tools available for reverse engineering, but one disassembler stands alone. Nearly everyone in this industry uses IDA Pro to some extent. IDA Pro […]

Vault7 Reveals that Even the CIA Reverse Engineers Malware to Re-Use Code

November 20, 2023September 25, 2024Occupy The Web

The recent CIA data dump from Wikileaks named Vault7, reveals many things about the CIA’s cyber intelligence efforts. For my part, the revelation that much of the malicious code that the CIA uses to spy on foreign nationals from around the world, uses “snippets” of code from known public malware was among one of the […]