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US Cyber Command Starts Uploading Foreign APT Malware To VirusTotal (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the better-collaboration dept.

The Cyber National Mission Force (CNMF), a subordinate unit of US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), set in motion a new initiative this week through which the DOD would share malware samples it discovered on its networks with the broader cybersecurity community. From a report: The CNMF kicked off this new project by creating an account on VirusTotal, an online file scanning service that also doubles as an online malware repository, and by uploading two malware samples.

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  1. So they uploaded Facebook? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Bravo!

  2. Very good by butzwonker · · Score: 2

    Now if every other country uploads foreign APT malware, too, then maybe even the NSA tools will be detected.

    1. Re:Very good by sinij · · Score: 1

      Yes and no. Uploading samples means that these tools can be detected as they exist right now, it doesn't mean that they would be detected after trivial code obfuscation efforts.

      Signature-based detection is a dead-end of IT security evolutionary tree.

    2. Re:Very good by gweihir · · Score: 2

      You mean the NSA that got Kaspersky banned because they would not ignore NSA malware?

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      Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
  3. Re:First security action we know of by AHuxley · · Score: 1

    AC its not a change. The USA does not need malware, it has what PRISM was, a direct path in and out.

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    Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"