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2020-03-31

Stepping Up to Help During the Crisis

The global pandemic, and associated economic downturn, has created a new reality where our customers are now supporting a large remote work force, vastly increasing the available attack surface for threat actors. In addition, COVID-19 has opened up a whole new arena of themed scams and malware. In the face
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2020-03-31

Debunking The Four Most Common Fileless Attack Myths

As a senior executive for a malware analysis and detection provider, I get asked one particular question quite often: “can your solution protect against fileless malware?” It’s a confounding question in many respects and one that requires some amount of clarification as to what types of threats they consider to
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2020-03-25

SANS Webcast Recap: Practical Malware Family Identification for Incident Responders

Taxonomy is the science of naming, defining and classifying groups of biological organisms based on shared characteristics. Fundamentally it’s an organization scheme that has allowed scientists to study organisms without confusion or overlap since the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus introduced his framework for a uniform naming system more than 300
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2020-02-21

Accelerating Incident Response with VMRay & MITRE ATT&CK

In this short video, we will demonstrate how security teams can leverage the mapping of VMRay’s analysis results to the MITRE ATT&CK framework for more effective incident response. ATT&CK is the industry-standard framework and knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques, threat groups, and related software and tools. The entire
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2020-02-18

VMRay Launches New Global Channel Partner Program

VMRay Makes its Leading Malware Analysis & Detection Platform Available to VARs and MDRs to Meet Growing Market Demand for Effective Security Against Advanced Threats Bochum, Germany – Feb 18, 2020 – VMRay, a leading provider of automated malware analysis and detection solutions, today announced the launch of the VMRay
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2020-01-29

2020 Outlook: Evaluating the Threat Landscape at the Dawn of a New Decade

The past decade has been one of unprecedented transformation, innovation, and uncertainty in the enterprise cybersecurity market. Five years ago, the Russian hacking group known as Sandworm succeeded in shutting down three power plants in Ukraine for several hours and demonstrated how targeted attacks could potentially disrupt the lives of
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2020-01-23

How Expel’s Analysts Are Using VMRay to Make Consistent, Sound Decisions

“Our analysts are really good at making decisions if they have the data to make that decision.” – Tyler Fornes, Sr. Response & Detection Analyst at Expel In this Risky Business podcast, host Patrick Gray interviews one of VMRay’s most forward-looking customers: Tyler Fornes, Senior Detection and Response Analyst for
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2020-01-22

Analyzing ZeroCleare’s Behavior Using a Malware Sandbox

View the VMRay Analyzer Report for ZeroCleare “ZeroCleare” is a new strain of malware discovered by IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) this past December. In the 28-page report, the IRIS Team revealed that ZeroCleare was used to execute an attack on Middle East organizations in the energy
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2020-01-14

How to Create Easy and Open Integrations with VMRay’s REST API

With the recent release of VMRay Analyzer Version 3.2, we have repackaged and enhanced our already robust REST API. These enhancements add more automation and scalability to malware analysis, detection, and result-sharing across heterogeneous environments. VMRay’s portfolio of out-of-the-box integrations and connectors built with our REST API, enables partners to
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2019-12-03

What’s New in VMRay Analyzer 3.2?

In VMRay’s first major product release since completing our Series B funding, we’ve introduced significant enhancements to VMRay Analyzer Version 3.2, our flagship platform for automated malware analysis and detection. Among the key capabilities announced, Version 3.2 expands and automates email analysis while complementing email protections already in place in
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2019-11-12

[SANS Webcast Recap] Evade Me If You Can: Unmasking Context Aware Malware

“Context is everything” goes the age-old adage. Malware has evolved in a variety of ways over the past few years but threat actors have increasingly focused more of their development efforts on making their malware sensitive to context in order to better identify and evade sandbox and analysis environments. In
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2019-10-21

VMRay IDA Plugin 1.1: Streamlining Deep-Dive Malware Analysis

A year ago this fall, we introduced the VMRay Analyzer IDA plugin for IDA Pro disassembler and decompiler. With Version 1.0 of the plugin (nicknamed IDARay), malware analysts and DFIR teams could use the output of VMRay Analyzer to enrich IDA Pro static analysis with behavior-based data. The plugin sped
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2019-10-09

VMRay Detector & Analyzer: A Single Pane of Glass for High-Volume Threat Detection and Analysis

According to Forrester, there will be 2 million job vacancies in the cybersecurity sector by 2022. This reality is the impetus for greater efficiency and achieving a significant improvement in the “signal to noise” ratio that security teams are dealing with. Automating malware analysis and detection on a large scale
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2019-10-02

[Risky Business Podcast] 3 Approaches that Evade Static Machine Learning Detection

This week, VMRay CEO & Co-Founder, Carsten Willems was a guest on the latest episode of the Risky Business Podcast. Carsten spoke with host Patrick Gray about VMRay’s supporting role in Endgame and MRG Effitas’ Static Machine Learning Evasion Contest at DEF CON this year. The contest required participants to
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2019-09-17

What’s Next for VMRay: Series B Funding Will Provide a Springboard to Unleash Innovation and Drive Growth

On September 16, VMRay announced it has closed its Series B round of funding in the amount of $10 million (€9 million), led by Digital+ Partners, one of the leading technology growth equity firms in Europe. To mark this milestone, VMRay co-founder Dr. Carsten Willems sat down with Chad Loeven,
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2019-09-16

VMRay Closes $10 Million Series B Round

Digital+ Partners Leads New Funding Round in Growing Automated Malware Analysis & Detection Provider to Combat Latest Advanced Threats and Support Market Expansion Bochum, Germany – VMRay, a provider of automated malware analysis and detection solutions, today announced that it has closed its Series B round of funding in the
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2019-09-04

MITRE ATT&CK: A Rosetta Stone for the Cyber Security Ecosystem

In July, VMRay released version 3.1 of VMRay Analyzer, our flagship platform for automated malware analysis and detection. Among several major enhancements, 3.1 mapped our existing VMRay Threat Indicators (VTIs) to MITRE ATT&CK, the industry-standard framework and knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques, threat groups, and related software and
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2019-08-13

Security Weekly Interview: VMRay CEO Discusses Operationalizing your Malware Sandbox

It was a busy week for the VMRay Team at this year’s Black Hat Conference. Our CEO and Co-Founder, Carsten Willems sat down for an interview with Paul Asadoorian, host of the Security Weekly podcast. Carsten expanded upon his March interview with Security Weekly where he talked about the core
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2019-08-08

How to Automate IOC Generation with MISP & VMRay

In order for SOC Teams to be more effective, they need access to rich sources of threat intelligence in order to gain visibility and insight into potential threats. At VMRay, our goal is to make the sharing of threat data from each analysis easy. An update to our connector for
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2019-08-01

Stepping into the Breach: Improving Security Researchers’ Ability to Dynamically Analyze macOS Malware at Scale

This content covered in the blog is based on my Objective By the Sea talk “Hypervisor-Based Analysis of macOS Malware”. You can access the slides from my presentation here. A Growing Threat and a Dearth of Tools Compared to Windows, macOS accounts for only a small percentage of all malware,
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2019-07-23

Enterprise Security Takes a Big Leap Forward with VMRay Analyzer 3.1

With the latest release of our flagship platform for malware analysis, VMRay Analyzer 3.1, we are enhancing enterprise security in four broad areas: providing greater platform coverage, improved scalability, additional access security, and greater detection efficacy. In Version v3.1 we have: Mapped malicious behavior to the industry-standard MITRE ATT&CK framework,
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2019-07-10

Intelligent Monitoring: Auto-Focus for Malware Analysts

Intelligent Monitoring captures everything that’s relevant and only what’s relevant, so your Security Team can focus on what’s most critical & essential. In explaining what had motivated his team to switch to VMRay Analyzer, a customer told us, “It’s not about getting our analysts started with malware analysis. It’s getting
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2019-07-03

SANS Webcast Recap: Hitting the Silent Alarm on Banking Trojans

In this era of Ransomware attacks and Zero Day attacks, it’s easy to forget about pervasive threats like Banking Trojans which have been around for some time. These same threats have evolved significantly over the past years, constantly presenting new challenges to security teams. In this post—condensed from a SANS
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2019-06-25

Analyzing Ursnif’s Behavior Using a Malware Sandbox

Ursnif is a group of malware families based on the same leaked source code. When fully executed Urnsif has the capability to steal banking and online account credentials. In this blog post, we will analyze the payload of a Ursnif sample and demonstrate how a malware sandbox can expedite the

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2019-05-29

How to Leverage Indicators of Compromise with VMRay & ThreatConnect

Indicators of compromise (IOCs) are essential pieces of information security teams use to improve detection and response times. With VMRay’s Intelligent Monitoring technology, IOCs extracted from an analysis are noise-free and provide relevant data for teams to import into their existing security tools. Our out-of-the-box integration with ThreatConnect allows you
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2019-05-28

Our CEO, Carsten Willems’ Interview on the Risky Business Podcast

“We are really into the tech. It makes our day if we can detect malware that no one else can.” Continuing our run of podcast interviews, our CEO & Co-Founder Carsten Willems recently featured on the Risky Business Podcast. For over a decade Risky Biz has been one of the
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2019-05-15

Delivering More Comprehensive and In-Depth URL Analysis in VMRay Analyzer 3.0

URLs are a ubiquitous infection vector. Embedded in emails, documents, and webpages, they are encountered early and often in the infection cycle. In addition to hosting exploits and delivering malicious files, they also play a major role in concealing threats and attacks by misdirecting analysis tools and security professionals. To
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2019-05-08

Explained: Smart Memory Dumping

In a recent major update of our flagship platform, VMRay Analyzer 3.0, we made dramatic improvements in the system’s memory dumping capabilities. In an automated approach we call smart memory dumping, VMRay Analyzer now triggers more frequent and more relevant memory dumps to capture a comprehensive view of malware characteristics
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2019-04-30

Empowering Email Users with Abuse Mailbox

Email phishing continues to be the most prevalent infection vector confronting enterprise security teams today. And with no end in sight to email-driven cybercrime, VMRay has been enhancing its email integration options, most recently with the introduction of IR Mailbox, an add-on feature to VMRay Analyzer and VMRay Detector. IR
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2019-04-09

Introducing VMRay Detector: High-Precision Threat Detection at Scale

SOC teams are often overwhelmed by the flood of known and suspected malware coming at them from every direction. Web and email gateways, endpoints and other systems all feed into the fire hose of suspicious files sent to the SOC—and all those potential threats need to be vetted ASAP. The
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