US Cyber Command Starts Uploading Foreign APT Malware To VirusTotal

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.

So they uploaded Facebook?

[Anonymous Coward]

Bravo!

Very good

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

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[sinij]

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.

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[gweihir]

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

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[AHuxley]

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