Posted by Brian Rakowski and Garrett Casto, Anti-Phishing and Anti-Malware TeamsOK, so it might be a little early to declare victory, but we’re excited about the Safe Browsing API we launched today. It provides a simple mechanism for downloading Google…
Posted by Colin Whittaker, Anti-Phishing TeamIn addition to targeting malware, we’re interested in combating phishing, a social engineering attack where criminals attempt to lure unsuspecting web surfers into logging into a fake website that looks like…
Posted by Nagendra Modadugu, Anti-Malware TeamIn this post, we investigate the distribution of web server software to provide insight into how server software is correlated to servers hosting malware binaries or engaging in drive-by-downloads.We determ…
Posted by Tavis Ormandy, Security TeamFollowing Panayiotis’ and Niels’ post on malware, I’d like to discuss a somewhat related topic, virtualisation. Virtual machines are often used by security researchers to sandbox malware samples for analysis, or to…