Cybercriminals test their creations before distributing them

International. Cybercriminals are looking for ways to test their creations before distributing them, pandalabs has found. An investigation carried out by the laboratory has shown how the criminals of the Network are collaborating with each other in different forums and pages to develop testing tools that include all security solutions, or at least the most prestigious. In this way, they want to check that their creations are not detected before launching them, avoiding possible failures.

"It is a tool model very similar to a legal one called "VirusTotal", developed by Hispasec. In fact, the boom in experimentation with this type of tools has occurred from the elimination in this tool of the "no distribution" option that allowed analyzing a file without sending a sample of it to security companies. explains Luis Corrons, technical director of PandaLabs.