A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for operating a “crypting” service used to conceal the Kelihos malware from antivirus software, which enabled hackers to systematically ...

Russian national Oleg Koshkin has been sentenced to four years in prison for operating a “crypting” service that helped hackers infect computers around the world with malware, the U.S. Justice ...

If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign ...

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypter service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware payloads and evade detection. Koshkin has ...

The US law enforcement, in coordination with global efforts, has disrupted counter-antivirus (CAV) operations by shuttering four leading domains offering these services. According to a Department of ...

An article in The Wall Street Journal this week quoted executives from antivirus pioneer Symantec uttering words that would have been industry heresy a few years ago, declaring antivirus software ...

Many different threat actors are using this crypting service/tool for their operations, possibly buying it from the developer itself. As bad actors continue to innovate in the area of sandbox evasion, ...

Behind many successful cyberattacks is a crypting service quietly doing the dirty work, one that rarely makes the headlines. In recent years, these services have been used more widely by groups who ...