Microsoft engineers have created, like they mention the first one platform in the world specifically designed to stop exploit kits.
The tool is called “Kizzle” and is a fast signature compiler that aims to detect the common practice of code reuse by malicious developers software, to detect disguised signatures weeks before they are detected by current anti-virus techniques.
For those who do not know, exploit kits are an attempt to pack many attack techniques and tools into a multi-tool.
Researchers Stock, Livshits, and Zorn from the University of Erlangen in Nuremberg and Microsoft technicians have released the Kizzle study: A Signature Compiler for Exploit KitsPDF) indicating that the Kits bundles seemed outrageously different until they were decompressed.
"The approach taken by the Kizzle tool is based on our observation that while exploit kits change the malware they often contain, kit writers generally reuse much of the code from version to version.
“Ironically, this is a practice technologyof software that allows us to develop a scalable and accurate detector that is able to quickly respond to the superficial but frequent changes of exploit kits. "
False positive notifications are less than a 0.03%, so we are talking about a huge improvement compared to today's commercial anti-virus.
The new technology from Microsoft marks a new era in the internet space better safetys, at least until malicious developers adapt their techniques.
Whatever the researchers' efforts are, however, very worthwhile for today's online community, which is also being attacked by canned threats.
