Australian cybersecurity company says it tricked BlackBerry’s Cylance Protect anti-virus product into believing some of the most pernicious types of malware, including WannaCry and the SamSam ransomware, were benign programs. Researchers at Skylight Cyber say they discovered that appending strings from the. executable of a gaming application to files such as W.annaCry would fool the anti-malware detection engine into thinking the file was not malware. Blackberry says it’s aware that a bypass has been publicly disclosed by security researchers.”]
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