How Analyzing a New Virus can Lead to Multiple Protections

Posted by on Oct 12, 2010 in CTO Insights, Malware | 0 comments

A new virus, Licat.A, was infecting machines worldwide last week. How can reverse engineering one virus lead to new protections beyond just the pattern file for this new virus?

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  1. Tweets that mention How Analyzing a New Virus can Lead to Multiple Protections | CTO Insights -- Topsy.com says:
    October 12, 2010 at 3:41 pm

    [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by TrendMicro, OfficeScan and Neil McElwee, Ido. Ido said: RT @TrendMicro: A new virus, Licat.A, was infecting machines last week. How reverse engineering one virus can protect against others. http://bit.ly/ctS5EY [...]

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  2. ZeuS Ups the Ante with LICAT says:
    October 13, 2010 at 1:37 am

    [...] Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™. CTO Raimund Genes talks more about this protection in How Analyzing a New Virus Can Lead to Multiple Protections. The domains generated by PE_LICAT are being analyzed in real-time and blocked as necessary. In [...]

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  3. File Infector Uses Domain Generation Technique Like DOWNAD/Conficker | The IT Monkey says:
    October 16, 2010 at 9:03 pm

    [...] Trend Micro protects product users from this attack via the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™,  which detects and blocks the said file infector from running. CTO Raimund Genes talks more about this protection in How Analyzing a New Virus Can Lead to Multiple Protections. [...]

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  4. ZeuS Ups the Ante with LICAT | The IT Monkey says:
    October 16, 2010 at 9:04 pm

    [...] Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™. CTO Raimund Genes talks more about this protection in How Analyzing a New Virus Can Lead to Multiple Protections. The domains generated by PE_LICAT are being analyzed in real-time and blocked as necessary. In [...]

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  5. CTO Raimund Genes: How Analyzing a New Virus Can Lead to Multiple Protections | Trend Micro Asia Pacific Newsletters Library says:
    December 8, 2010 at 11:15 am

    [...] can reverse engineering one virus lead to new protections—beyond just the pattern file?” » Watch video blog // This entry was posted in Enterprise. Bookmark the permalink. ← Critical [...]

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  6. New Virus Linked to ZeuS Trojan, Borrows Tricks from Confiker Worm | Trend Micro Asia Pacific Newsletters Library says:
    December 9, 2010 at 8:17 am

    [...] A dangerous new virus, detected as PE_LICAT.A, is on a global rampage. The worm borrows a technique used by Conficker/DOWNAD, which downloads and executes malicious files from various web domains. Several of these domains are linked to ZeuS, and Trend Micro threat analysts have confirmed that a ZeuS variant is both the starting point and final payload of this infection chain. Trend Micro Smart Protection Network™ detects and blocks the dynamic attack. CTO Raimund Genes talks more about this protection in his video blog, How Analyzing a New Virus Can Lead to Multiple Protections. [...]

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