We are pleased to announce the partnership with The SOC Academy, a new startup dedicated to providing cybersecurity education, debuting with a VirusTotal Certification course. Founded by Laura, a passionate entrepreneur and especially a cybersecurity enthusiast, The SOC Academy aims to enhance the skills and expertise of professionals in the field....

VirusTotal’s Threat Landscape can be a valuable source of operational and tactical threat intelligence for CTI teams, for instance helping us find the latest malware trends used by a given Threat Actor to adjust our intelligence-led security posture accordingly. In this post, we will play the role of a CTI analyst working for a Singaporean financial...

The COM Hijacking technique is often utilized by threat actors and various malware families to achieve both persistence and privilege escalation in target systems. It relies on manipulating Component Object Model (COM), exploiting the core architecture of Windows that enables communication between software components, by adding a new value on a specific...

The MITRE framework helps all defenders speak the same language regarding attackers' modus operandi. VirusTotal provides multiple data points where MITRE's Tactics and Techniques are dynamically extracted from samples when detonated in our sandboxes. In particular, samples' MITRE mapping can be found under the BEHAVIOR tab of a file's report....

Today we are happy to announce the release of our “Livehunt Cheat Sheet”, a guide to help you quickly implement monitoring rules in Livehunt. You can find the PDF version here. VirusTotal Livehunt is a service that continuously scans all incoming indicators and notifies you when any of them matches your rules. Livehunt not only monitors files,...

In the constantly changing world of cybersecurity, generative AI is becoming an increasingly valuable tool. This blog post shows various examples that elude traditional detection engines yet are adeptly unveiled by Code Insight. We explore diverse scenarios, ranging from firmware patches in DJI drones that disable red flight lights, to the covert theft...