If you operate a cybercrime business that relies on disseminating malicious software, you probably also spend a good deal of time trying to disguise or “crypt” your malware so that it appears benign ...

Russian national Oleg Koshkin has been sentenced to four years in prison for operating a “crypting” service that helped hackers infect computers around the world with malware, the U.S. Justice ...

The Kelihos botnet was used by Levashov to send spam, harvest account credentials, conduct denial of service attacks, and more. A Russian national was sentenced today to 48 months in prison for ...

Russian national Oleg Koshkin was convicted for charges related to the operation of a malware crypter service used by the Kelihos botnet to obfuscate malware payloads and evade detection. Koshkin has ...

Russian national Oleg Koshkin has been sentenced to 48 months in prison for operating a "crypting" service used to conceal the Kelihos botnet from antivirus software, enabling attackers to infect ...

An article in The Wall Street Journal this week quoted executives from antivirus pioneer Symantec uttering words that would have been industry heresy a few years ago, declaring antivirus software ...