What is it about?

A popular class of threats known as zero day malware has drawn increasing attention from researchers primarily from the organization sector. The term “zero day” refers to the unknown nature of the hole to those outside of the hackers, specifically, the developers. Once the vulnerability becomes known, a race begins for the developer, who must protect users. In order for the vendor to rectify the vulnerability, the software company must release a patch. Traditional based antivirus are unable to detect these kind of threats, For cybercriminals, unpatched vulnerabilities in popular software, such as Microsoft Office or Adobe Flash, represent a free pass to any target they might want to attack, so it’s better to keep update your software feature as well. In this paper our prime focus on getting information new kind of malware and what are the ways we can avoid that kind of threat as well.

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Why is it important?

Zero day malware are very sophisticated,now a days attackers become so smart they used various obfuscation techniques,so that it becomes difficult to identify the nature of virus,even though some intrusion detection system (IDS) can detect but not so much reliable because sometimes they give false positive results also. İn this paper we provided introduction part of zero day malware attack, still the research is going on that kind of threat.

Perspectives

This paper provides brief study on zero-day malware attacks. It provides a platform to network security researchers to further investigate more on these types of attacks.

Dr Abhay Pratap Singh Bhadauria
GLA University

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This page is a summary of: A Study on Zero Day Malware Attack, IJARCCE, January 2017, Tejass Publisheers,
DOI: 10.17148/ijarcce.2017.6179.
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