Malware Analysis and Detection Engineering: A Comprehensive Approach to Detect and Analyze Modern Malware

© Abhijit Mohanta, Anoop Saldanha 2020

A. Mohanta, A. SaldanhaMalware Analysis and Detection Engineeringhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6193-4_1

1. Introduction

Abhijit Mohanta¹  and Anoop Saldanha²

(1)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India

(2)

Independent Cybersecurity Consultant, Mangalore, Karnataka, India

 

“My computer has a virus!” Almost anyone who has been involved with any kind of computing device has either said or heard this phrase. These days, we frequently hear about virus attacks. Some of these attacks impact millions of users across the globe. As security professionals, we explain that the term virus is not very accurate. The correct scientific terminology is malware. A virus is a category of malware.

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