A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically ...

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign ...

Russian national Oleg Koshkin has been sentenced to four years in prison for operating a “crypting” service that helped hackers infect computers around the world with malware, the U.S. Justice ...

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypter service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware payloads and evade detection. Koshkin has ...

An article in The Wall Street Journal this week quoted executives from antivirus pioneer Symantec uttering words that would have been industry heresy a few years ago, declaring antivirus software ...

The US law enforcement, in coordination with global efforts, has disrupted counter-antivirus (CAV) operations by shuttering four leading domains offering these services. According to a Department of ...

Behind many successful cyberattacks is a crypting service quietly doing the dirty work, one that rarely makes the headlines. In recent years, these services have been used more widely by groups who ...