GreyEnergy malware uses junk code and anti-analysis techniques to evade detection

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Cyber-attacks launched by BlackEnergy left 230,000 people in Ukraine without electricity in December 2015. Image via Pixabay
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Cyber-attacks launched by BlackEnergy left 230,000 people in Ukraine without electricity in December 2015. Image via Pixabay

GreyEnergy is thought to be the successor of another Russia-linked hacking group called BlackEnergy

An analysis of the malware linked with the 2015 cyber-attacks on the Ukrainian power grid reveals that hackers added a large amount of junk code to their malware in a bid to evade detection and to confuse...

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