Malware ships with bugs that defenders could use against it

Static analysis tools have spent years scanning legitimate software for security bugs before it goes out the door. The same scanners work on malware, and malware carries a steady supply of its own bugs. Researchers ran four of these tools across 658 leaked malware projects and found that close to 90 percent contained at least one recognized software weakness. The malware code came from VX-Underground, a public repository of leaked samples. The scanners were Cppcheck, … appeared first on Help Net Security.