Malware is malicious code that has an effect on the user or device and allows an attacker to
do significant harm to the machine. Malware is a kind of computer virus that increases in …

The competing landscape between malware authors and security analysts is an ever‐
changing battlefield over who can innovate over the other. While security analysts are …

Research shows that over the last decade, malware have been growing exponentially,
causing substantial financial losses to various organizations. Different anti-malware …

Cyber-attacks on the numerous parts of today's fast developing IoT are only going to
increase in frequency and severity. A reliable method for detecting malicious attacks such as …

In today's digital world most of the anti-malware tools are signature based, which is
ineffective to detect advanced unknown malware, viz. metamorphic malware. In this paper …

In today's world, information is one of the most valuable assets, but there is a major threat to
it by the evolving second-generation sophisticated malware, because it can enter the …

Ransomware is a type of malware that prevents or restricts user from accessing their system,
either by locking the system's screen or by locking the users' files in the system unless a …

Malware and malicious code do not only incur considerable costs and losses but impact
negatively the reputation of the targeted organisations. Malware developers, hackers, and …

A metamorphic virus is a type of malware that modifies its code using a morphing engine.
Morphing engines are used to generate a large number of metamorphic malware variants by …

In this paper, we propose a novel mechanism to normalize metamorphic and obfuscated
malware down at the opcode level and hence create an advanced metamorphic malware de …