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FireEye to Discuss Malware Evasion Techniques and Tactics at Black Hat USA 2013

MILPITAS, CA — (Marketwired) — 07/25/13 — FireEye®, Inc., the leader in stopping today-s new breed of cyber attacks, today announced that senior director of malware research, Zheng Bu and senior staff research scientist, Abhishek Singh will present on August 1 at Black Hat USA 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The presentation, “Hot Knives Through Butter: Bypassing Automated Analysis Systems” will discuss advanced anti-analysis techniques used by APTs and advanced malware to stay under the radar of file-based sandboxes.

“Hot Knives Through Butter: Bypassing Automated Analysis Systems”

August 1, 2:15 PM

: Black Hat 2013, Las Vegas, Nevada

Zheng Bu, Sr. Director of Malware Research, FireEye and Abhishek Singh, Sr. Staff Research Scientist, FireEye

The presentation will provide an in-depth, technical analysis of evasion techniques used by malware and APTs to bypass capturing of its behavior by a file-based sandbox, which are commonly being used by the anti-virus Industry. The talk will present the ability of some of the commonly used file-based sandboxes to stand against these evasion tactics. The presentation will also contain a live demonstration of some of the anti-analysis techniques that have emerged recently.

® has invented a purpose-built, virtual machine-based security platform that provides real-time threat protection to enterprises and governments worldwide against the next generation of cyber attacks. These highly sophisticated cyber attacks easily circumvent traditional signature-based defenses, such as next-generation firewalls, IPS, anti-virus, and gateways. The provides real-time, dynamic threat protection without the use of signatures to protect an organization across the primary threat vectors, including Web, email, and files and across the different stages of an attack life cycle. The core of the FireEye platform is a virtual execution engine, complemented by dynamic threat intelligence, to identify and block cyber attacks in real time. FireEye has over 1,000 customers across more than 40 countries, including over one-third of the Fortune 100.

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Katherine Nellums
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