- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 28th, 2016
VirusTotal Adds Support for CrowdStrike and Invincea Scanners
First next-gen machine learning scanners added to VirusTotal
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 27th, 2016
VirusTotal Adds Support for Scanning Malicious Firmware Images
Users can utilize it to detect rootkit malware
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 23rd, 2015
Antivirus Evasion Website Operators Arrested in the UK
reFUD.me website shut down after their arrest
- Apple & Mac Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 17th, 2015
Google's VirusTotal Scanning Engine Improves Support for Mac OS X Files
Google adds sandbox execution support for Mac OS X apps
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 2nd, 2015
Somebody Rated Antivirus Engines Based on the Number of False Positives
A flawed methodology, but interesting results nevertheless
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 28th, 2015
Run Your Own Version of VirusTotal with PlagueScanner
Meet PlagueScanner, the open source AV scanner framework
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 9th, 2015
VirusTotal Adds Arcabit to Its Antivirus Engine List
New addition does not increase the number of scanners
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- February 11th, 2015
VirusTotal Adds “Trusted Source” Flag to Fight False Positives
Google gets huge software developers to share catalogue
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- September 5th, 2014
VirusTotal Used to Identify Malware Authors
Using info from the service, threat actors can be identified, researcher finds
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 30th, 2014
BlackEnergy Sample Uploaded from Belgium
Malware evolves, kernel mode component is eliminated
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 18th, 2014
Zbot Variant Poorly Detected by AV Engines
Researcher finds malware sample that fails to connect to C2 server
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 14th, 2014
BlackEnergy Trojan Sample Designed for Windows 8 and Up
Malware not signed, less capable to infect modern Windows
- Security
- By Filip Truta
- May 27th, 2014
Google Officially Releases VirusTotal OS X Uploader
Drag and drop a file to scan it with over 50 anti-malware solutions
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- February 4th, 2014
VirusTotal Introduces “imphash” for Portable Executables
The new hash is useful for tracking the backdoors of specific threat groups
- Windows Software
- By Bogdan Popa
- January 30th, 2014
Microsoft Adds VirusTotal Scanning to Sysinternals Suite – Free Download
Process Explorer has received online anti-virus scanning options
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- September 18th, 2013
VirusTotal Adds Two New Engines: Bkav and CMC
Bkav and CMC InfoSec are companies based in Vietnam
- Security Blog
- By Eduard Kovacs
- June 5th, 2013
VirusTotal Now Capable of Analyzing Malicious ASF Media Files
Users must click the "File detail" tab to see additional information