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Giovanni Vigna's study found no antivirus consistently detects day-one malware

“Actually, there was, in a year that we did the study, there was never one single antivirus that was able always to get the sample the first day.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 13:34 Giovanni Vigna

Assertion Supported

Giovanni Vigna's research team hijacked a Russian botnet to write a paper

“We even captured once an entire botnet. We stole it from the Russian cybercrime gang, and we ran it for a while to understand what information we would collect, and then we wrote a paper on it, because that's what we do.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 3:47 Giovanni Vigna

Disclosure

Lastline processes 750,000 malware samples per day, requiring accelerated analysis

“You cannot execute a thousand, a hundred, or in our case, 750,000 samples a day, ah, for an hour, because the computing power would be enormous and incredibly expensive, so you have to speed it up.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 10:08 Giovanni Vigna

Assertion Supported

Giovanni Vigna says perfect malware detection is mathematically impossible

“So it's impossible really to understand what a program does. So we will always only have heuristics and never the final algorithm that is able to tell this is a good program and this is a bad program.”

Giovanni Vigna Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 16:45 Giovanni Vigna

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