{"id":212539,"date":"2025-04-27T05:05:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/spy-vs-spy-a-new-automated-removal-tool-can-stop-most-remote-controlled-malware"},"modified":"2025-04-27T05:05:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T10:05:21","slug":"spy-vs-spy-a-new-automated-removal-tool-can-stop-most-remote-controlled-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/spy-vs-spy-a-new-automated-removal-tool-can-stop-most-remote-controlled-malware","title":{"rendered":"Spy vs. spy: A new automated removal tool can stop most remote-controlled malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spy-vs-spy-a-new-automated-removal-tool-can-stop-most-remote-controlled-malware.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cyberattacks can snare workflows, put vulnerable client information at risk, and cost corporations and governments millions of dollars. A botnet\u2014a network infected by malware\u2014can be particularly catastrophic. A new Georgia Tech tool automates the malware removal process, saving engineers hours of work and companies money.<\/p>\n<p>The tool, ECHO, turns malware against itself by exploiting its built-in update mechanisms and preventing botnets from rebuilding. ECHO is 75% effective at removing botnets. Removing malware used to take days or weeks to fix, but can now be resolved in a few minutes. Once a security team realizes their system is compromised, they can now deploy ECHO, which works fast enough to prevent the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/botnet\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">botnet<\/a> from taking down an entire network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnderstanding the behavior of the malware is usually very hard with little reward for the engineer, so we\u2019ve made an automatic solution,\u201d said Runze Zhang, a Ph.D. student in the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy (SCP) and the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyberattacks can snare workflows, put vulnerable client information at risk, and cost corporations and governments millions of dollars. A botnet\u2014a network infected by malware\u2014can be particularly catastrophic. A new Georgia Tech tool automates the malware removal process, saving engineers hours of work and companies money. The tool, ECHO, turns malware against itself by exploiting its [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}