FBI releases Malware Investigator portal to industry players

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http://www.zdnet.com/fbi-releases-malware-investigator-portal-to-industry-players-7000034186/

By Charlie Osborne
Zero Day
ZDNet News
September 30, 2014

The FBI's Malware Investigator portal will soon be available to security 
researchers, academics and businesses.

As reported by Threatpost, the US law enforcement agency's tool is akin to 
systems used by cybersecurity companies to upload suspicious files. Once a 
file is uploaded, the system pushes through antimalware engines to pull 
out information on the file -- whether it is malicious, what the malware 
does, and whom it effects.

The Malware Investigator analyses threats through sandboxing, file 
modification, section hashing, correlation against other submissions and 
the FBI's own entries concerning viruses and malware reports. Windows 
files and common file types can currently be analysed, but this will 
expand to include other file types in the near future.

The FBI says that businesses will find this tool particularly useful, 
stating on the portal's website:

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