Looking to streamline the collection of malware samples, two of the biggest honeypot projects—mwcollect and nepenthes—have merged operations. . The two projects, which passively trap viruses, spyware and other forms of malicious software by emulating known vulnerabilities, will combine operations to develop a single malware collection tool, according to an announcement my mwcollect head developer Georg Wicherski. The merger comes after a year of concurrent development that caused a lot of overlap and shared work, Wicherski said. The link for this article located at eWeek is no longer available. . Integrating mwcollect with nepenthes advances the capture of malware samples via cutting-edge honeypot systems.. Malware Sampling,Honeypot Integration,Cyber Threat Detection. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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