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Research ArchiveChristian Staunton2018-04-06T17:19:42+00:00
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September 13, 2019

Machine learning evasion contest – the AV tester’s perspective

The beginning It’s the year 2018, somewhere around the end of October in one of the most beautiful islands in the world. The weather is …

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September 21, 2017

Encrypted exploit delivery – #IRONSQUIRREL

This research deals with the delivery of encrypted browser exploits to a victim’s browser. It is a follow-up post to some research I did 2 …

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Endpoint Protection Testing, Exploit Protection Testing
July 29, 2017

Current state of malicious Powershell script blocking

The current state of malicious Powershell script blocking is bad, very bad. There is room for improvement … Only two products (among the tested ones) …

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Endpoint Protection Testing, Nextgen Protection Testing
July 20, 2017

Webroot SecureAnywhere Android AV coordinated disclosure

Researchers of MRG Effitas tested the Webroot SecureAnywhere Android application. During use, we came across implementation details, which might undermine the Vendor’s efforts to provide …

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Endpoint Protection Testing, Smartphone Security Testing
June 28, 2017

EternalRomance vs Internet Security Suites and nextgen protections

This blog post is an auxiliary post to our Eternalblue test. If you have not read that, please read it, and go back when it …

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Endpoint Protection Testing, Nextgen Protection Testing
May 18, 2017

ETERNALBLUE vs Internet Security Suites and nextgen protections

Due to the recent #wannacry ransomware events, we initiated a quick test in our lab. Most vendors claim to protect against the WannaDecrypt ransomware, and …

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Endpoint Protection Testing, Nextgen Protection Testing
December 29, 2016

TestMyAV – an independent next-gen testing vendor?

There is a new cat in town – TestMyAV. Instead of my words, let’s introduce TestMyAV by the words from Tom Wright, from http://www.channelweb.co.uk/crn-uk/news/3001315/msp-launches-av-testing-website-to-stamp-out-misleading-reports . “Security MSP Cognition …

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Endpoint Protection Testing, Nextgen Protection Testing
December 3, 2016

Uninstall your AV today! Or maybe not?

This week was popcorn-time on Twitter. The good old debate started again. On one side, browser developers, penetration testers and AV bug hunters, on the …

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