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[SANS ISC] Code & Data Reuse in the Malware Ecosystem

I published the following diary on isc.sans.edu: “Code & Data Reuse in the Malware Ecosystem“:

In the past, I already had the opportunity to give some “security awareness” sessions to developers. One topic that was always debated is the reuse of existing code. Indeed, for a developer, it’s tempting to not reinvent the wheel when somebody already wrote a piece of code that achieves the expected results. From a gain of time perspective, it’s a win for the developers who can focus on other code. Of course, this can have side effects and introduce bugs, backdoors, etc… but it’s not today’s topic. Malware developers are also developers and have the same behavior. Code reuse has been already discussed several times… [Read more]

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