Dark Reading: How Attackers Thwart Malware Investigation

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A researcher at Black Hat USA this month will dissect a recent attack, showing off attackers' techniques for making malware analysis harder and intelligence gathering more time consuming

By Robert Lemos
July 11, 2013

Black-hat budgeting--attempting to skew the economics of hacking against attackers by raising the cost of compromise--has become a common defensive strategy for companies.

Yet, attackers have also focused on making defenders pay dearly for gathering digital intelligence on their attacks: From domain-name generation to more subtle code obfuscation, attackers are adopting techniques to raise the cost to defenders of detecting attacks, analyzing malware and gathering intelligence.

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