For years, Avast Decoded has been your go-to for the latest in cybersecurity insights and research. But as cybercriminals evolve, so do we. Starting now, our groundbreaking research, expert analysis and the stories that keep the digital world safe are moving to one place: the Gen Insights Blog. By uniting our expertise under the Gen brand, we’re amplifying our reach and impact, bringing you the...
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The digital world is evolving at breakneck speed. In 2025, we’re set to witness transformative changes in cybersecurity that will redefine trust, security, and how we navigate our digital lives. Here’s what we see coming: AI Blurs Reality: Hyper-personalized AI experiences will raise questions about truth, ethics, and independent thought. Deepfake Evolution: Sophisticated forgeries will make it...
The third quarter threat report is here—and it’s packed with answers. Our Threat Labs team had uncovered some heavy stories behind the stats, exposing the relentless tactics shaping today’s threat landscape. Here’s what you need to know: 614% explosion in Scam-Yourself Attacks: Over 2 million users were protected from FakeCaptcha scams, where fake tutorials, phony fixes, and malicious CAPTCHA...
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Following our guide about regular expressions, we present a new unique tool that can help you with a creation of such expressions, mainly for those used in the YARA Cuckoo module. To fully understand the benefits of our new open-source project, we first expand our knowledge about regular expressions in the Cuckoo module, share resources that can come in handy, and explain how to...
For the fifth post of the Know Your YARA Rules series, we want to create a comprehensive manual for regular expressions that would improve your YARA rules. Why is it so complicated? When discussing regular expressions, we must first address the elephant in the room. Regular expressions can get complicated rather quickly, mainly because they often look like winners in obfuscation games rather...
In the third post of the Know Your YARA Rules series, we mentioned that something is cooking up in the YARA world. In this post, we will investigate what the future holds for the YARA tool and its users. We are introducing the next generation of the YARA tool – YARA-X. Motivation YARA has recently celebrated its 15th anniversary (calculated from the first commit in the...
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