MTaS: Malware Testing as a Service

Well, in my last post I wrote about the prices for malware. Today I read the next evolution of this: The possibility to have malware tested against anti-malware tools – not to make sure malware is really recognized, no, the other way round: To make sure it is not recognized.

I read this article on wired.com: Underground Services Let Virus Writers Check Their Work and you get a good report:

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It is getting worse and I am not sure that we as an industry move fast enough – especially I feel that the criminals have the better collaboration than the good guys. I do not mean the vendors only, I mean the vendors, customers, governments. That’s needed!

Roger