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History of malware
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    • In: Where the falcons and foxes roam
    • Through: Where the raccoons burrow and rummage
      • The art of staying where you are not wanted
      • Overflowing the bin on purpose
      • Reverse engineering
        • Binary formats
        • Cracking nuts
        • Malware analysis
          • History of malware
          • Typical behaviours
          • Purpose of a malware attack
          • Malware signatures
          • Static and dynamic analysis
          • Packers
          • Memory analysis
          • Virtual function reverse engineering tool
          • Analysing Anti-Reverse engineering tricks
          • PE/ELF header parser
          • Dynamic analysis for API monitoring
        • Runbooks
        • Root me challenges
        • crackmes.one
      • Steganography
      • Crypto-attacks
      • Slipping through the cracks
    • Out: Where squirrels swipe the crown jewels
    • Fungolia earthworks
    • Unseen University Power & Light Co.
    • The Scarlet Semaphore

    History of malwareΒΆ

    Some small stories on how malicious software (malware) has evolved into the complicated viruses we may be exposed to today.

    • Interview with Ray Tomlinson on Creeper/Reaper

    • Malware spotlight: Wabbit

    • The Animal Episode

    • Elk-Cloner: The 30-year-old prank that became the first computer virus

    • With Microscope and Tweezers: An Analysis of the Internet Virus of November 1988

    • YouTube: Virus.DOS.Cascade

    • onx/CASCADE

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