The Threats You Should Know About

Roman Kovac, ESET Chief Research Officer

- Alvin Soon

What are ‘fully undetectable’ or FUD crypting services?

People are selling FUD services to create variations of malware, so that it’s not detectable by security companies. It’s not easy for the bad guys to do this, but they do have one advantage – they actually know our software. They can get our software or those of other security companies and modify malware until it’s undetectable.

But security products have layers of protection, not only one layer of detection. So if they test the malware locally it may not be detected. But if they send it out we may detect it in between or with some other method.

What is one ESET product feature that you’re especially proud of?

If I have to pick one I’d say network detections. This kind of protection is not detection on the file level, but it looks at the traffic coming to or going out of a user’s PC. So that adds another layer of security.