Dark Reading: Researchers Seek Better Ways To Track Malware's Family Tree

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Following a program's evolution back to the author may not yet be a reality, but computer scientists are searching for more accurate measures of the relationships between software versions

By Robert Lemos
August 15, 2013

Using basic features of software programs, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have been able to organize related code into family trees, connecting initial versions to subsequent updates, using techniques that could allow malware analysts to more quickly triage unknown threats.

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