Cybersecurity

Bromium Makes Open Source Security Research Tool Available

The open source community generally hasn’t produced many security analysis tools. For the most part, the tools required to do malware research are available only under a commercial license from security vendors that sell security software and hardware.

Looking to increase the number of open source developers actively doing security research, at DerbyCon 2015 late last week, Bromium unveiled Packer Attack, an open source tool that enables security researchers to see what’s happening inside encrypted and encoded malware.

Vadim Kotov, senior security researcher at Bromium, says the company started work on Packer Attack in earnest shortly after a Heartbleed bug compromised open source security on a broad scale. After that, it was apparent that not only were there not enough developers researching open source security, but also researchers didn’t have ready access to the tools needed to study advanced forms of malware.