A New Kind of Defense:Tapping Malware Vulnerabilities
It's almost axiomatic that all complex software has vulnerabilities and that means malware has them too. The silver lining here is that some security researchers are using vulnerabilities in malware to give attackers "a taste of their own medicine".
Joel Eriksson of Bitsec reverse engineers malware to find remotely exploitable vulnerabilities and uses those to go after attackers. Speaking of malware developers, he told Wired magazine:
"They may be good, but they are not the most careful about security."
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