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Malware Tries to Detect Test Environment (Schneier on Security)
2016-09-28 11:34

A new malware tries to detect if it's running in a virtual machine or sandboxed test environment by looking for signs of normal use and not executing if they're not there. From a news article: A typical test environment consists of a fresh Windows computer image loaded into a VM environment. The OS image usually lacks documents and other telltale...


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