Security has also become the target of viruses

Virus programmers have invented a virus called Gattman that targets a widely used analytical tool among anti-virus researchers.

However, according to the assessment, only independent anti-virus researchers are likely to be infected with this virus, because for those who prefer malware only because of curiosity, not must be a hazard study that these software can bring.

Gattman is distributed primarily through a program called Interactive Disassembler Pro (IDA) - a very popular source code decoding tool for Data Rescure. This is a very popular tool in antivirus research labs. This tool allows researchers to decompile program files back to the original source format.

This virus infects directly into IDA's programming scripting language. However, scripting language resources are often shared among researchers. This may be the reason why Gattman has the opportunity to infect this language itself.

Gattman has only been programmed to attack automatically, but does not cause any damage or download other malicious software.

Carole Theriault - senior security consultant of security firm Sophos - said the Gattman virus author probably just wants to "challenge" sloppy security researchers.

Gattman is a polymorphic virus - a virus programming technique that has no longer been favored for use in the past. This means that the virus can change its shape every time it is spread.

Although the Gattman virus did not cause any damage, its appearance also rang a new warning bell for the security community. It is a warning bell about the "explosion" of the trend for profit targeting in the malware programming world. In order to bypass security tools and attack users, they are not afraid to program the main malware attacks on anti-virus security tools. Perhaps the best defense for our users is to be really careful.

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