Security News > 2020 > August > BlackBerry launches free tool for reverse engineering to fight cybersecurity attacks
One of the first announcements at BlackHat USA 2020 is an open-source tool to fight malware that BlackBerry first used internally and is now making available to everyone.
At BlackHat USA 2020, BlackBerry announced on Monday that its open-source internal tool PE Tree is now available for all security professionals to use for reverse engineering malware.
This tool allows reverse engineers to view Portable Executable files in a tree view using pefile and PyQt5.
Eric Milam, vice president of research operations for BlackBerry, said in a press release, "As cybercriminals up their game, the cybersecurity community needs new tools in their arsenal to defend and protect organizations and people. We've created this solution to help the cybersecurity community in this fight, where there are now more than one billion pieces of malware with that number continuing to grow by upwards of 100 million pieces each year."
Later this week at Black Hat USA 2020, Kevin Livelli, BlackBerry's director of threat intelligence, will be presenting on Decade of the RATs on August 5 at 11-11:40 am PT. BlackBerry will also be presenting a sponsored webinar about its partnership with Intel to stop cryptojacking malware, and this session will drill down into BlackBerry Optics AI-based EDR technology for Linux.