January 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Winners for this year’s #shmoocon #Firetalks…
* Honorable Mention: Kirsten Renner, "Start at the Finish Line"
* Place: Amélie Koran, "Multi-Sector/Industry Hobo"
* Show: Richard Zak, "MalwareDB"
* Win/ Karl Koscher, "The Unethical Engineer’s Guide to […]
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* Honorable Mention: Kirsten Renner, "Start at the Finish Line"
* Place: Amélie Koran, "Multi-Sector/Industry Hobo"
* Show: Richard Zak, "MalwareDB"
* Win/ Karl Koscher, "The Unethical Engineer’s Guide to […]
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January 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Winners for this year’s #shmoocon #Firetalks…
* Honorable Mention: Kirsten Renner, "Start at the Finish Line"
* Place: Amélie Koran, "Multi-Sector/Industry Hobo"
* Show: Richard Zak, "MalwareDB"
* Win/ Karl Koscher, "The Unethical Engineer’s Guide to […]
[Original post on infosec.exchange]
* Honorable Mention: Kirsten Renner, "Start at the Finish Line"
* Place: Amélie Koran, "Multi-Sector/Industry Hobo"
* Show: Richard Zak, "MalwareDB"
* Win/ Karl Koscher, "The Unethical Engineer’s Guide to […]
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#MalwareDB v0.3.8 is out! Just dependency and CI updates this time. github.com/malwaredb/ma... #malware #CyberSecurity #OpenSource #RustLang
Release v0.3.8 · malwaredb/malwaredb-rs
What's New
Just dependency updates for the application, library, and repository's CI config.
What's Changed
chore(deps): Bump docker/login-action from 4.4.0 to 4.6.0 by @dependabot[bot] in #1347...
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September 1, 2026 at 3:46 PM
#MalwareDB v0.3.8 is out! Just dependency and CI updates this time. github.com/malwaredb/ma... #malware #CyberSecurity #OpenSource #RustLang
#MalwareDB 0.3.7 is out, featuring an admin GUI rewrite, now with egui! github.com/malwaredb/ma...
Release v0.3.7 · malwaredb/malwaredb-rs
What's New
The admin GUI interface has more features and has been re-written with egui.
Dependency updates.
Not enabled by default or provided in the releases are two new features: anonymous for d...
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August 1, 2026 at 3:34 AM
#MalwareDB 0.3.7 is out, featuring an admin GUI rewrite, now with egui! github.com/malwaredb/ma...
Malware DB v0.2.2 is out! Binaries are available here github.com/malwaredb/ma.... Not much has changed this month, besides a content digest header when returning a sample. Something forgotten from the release notes: the Windows service (still untested) writes logs to the Windows event log.
Release v0.2.2 · malwaredb/malwaredb-rs
What's new
content-digest header set when sending samples to the client, client verifies if present.
Dependency updates.
What's Changed
chore(deps): Bump taiki-e/install-action from 2.62.58 to 2...
github.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Malware DB v0.2.2 is out! Binaries are available here github.com/malwaredb/ma.... Not much has changed this month, besides a content digest header when returning a sample. Something forgotten from the release notes: the Windows service (still untested) writes logs to the Windows event log.
#MalwareDB slides from @hobocon.bsky.social are available from github.com/rjzak/malwar.... It was a great conference and many thanks to the organizers, @seckc.org, and @amtrak.com for having us! #Cybersecurity #Trains
July 21, 2026 at 3:09 AM
#MalwareDB slides from @hobocon.bsky.social are available from github.com/rjzak/malwar.... It was a great conference and many thanks to the organizers, @seckc.org, and @amtrak.com for having us! #Cybersecurity #Trains
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By: richard.j.zak@gmail.com on Wednesday, June 11, 2025
By: richard.j.zak@gmail.com on Wednesday, June 11, 2025
malwaredb 0.0.23.dev0
Python client for MalwareDB
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June 11, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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By: richard.j.zak@gmail.com on Wednesday, June 11, 2025
By: richard.j.zak@gmail.com on Wednesday, June 11, 2025
I'd like to use CC as a way to protect the samples. Currently MalwareDB has the option to encrypt files on disk to prevent accidental execution or deletion by an AV product. CC could be another option (I'm thinking about a planned #Enarx feature for an encrypted filesystem).
January 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I'd like to use CC as a way to protect the samples. Currently MalwareDB has the option to encrypt files on disk to prevent accidental execution or deletion by an AV product. CC could be another option (I'm thinking about a planned #Enarx feature for an encrypted filesystem).
#MalwareDB v0.3.6 is out! This introduces anonymous mode, which isn't yet finished from the client-side, but allows for unauthenticated users to interact with MalwareDB. Not all packages were published from GHA due to the crates.io bug fixed in Rust 1.96.1. github.com/malwaredb/ma...
Release v0.3.6 · malwaredb/malwaredb-rs
What's New
egui-version of the admin GUI improvements
Anonymous mode
Dependency updates
Notice:
CI failed to upload all of the crates to crates.io, so some will be manually published. Possibly c...
github.com
July 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
#MalwareDB v0.3.6 is out! This introduces anonymous mode, which isn't yet finished from the client-side, but allows for unauthenticated users to interact with MalwareDB. Not all packages were published from GHA due to the crates.io bug fixed in Rust 1.96.1. github.com/malwaredb/ma...
#MalwareDB v0.3.0 is out, which provides #Yara search and a GitHub-hosted Docker container. Unfortunately something happened where GitHub's download action couldn't download the GHA-built Python modules, so those were published to PyPi manually. github.com/malwaredb/ma...
Release v0.3.0 · malwaredb/malwaredb-rs
What's new:
BREAKING: SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512 hashes are now stored in Postges as bytea.
BREAKING: MD5, Import Hash are now stored in Postgres as uuid.
EXPERIMENTAL: To help with the brea...
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January 31, 2026 at 6:42 PM
#MalwareDB v0.3.0 is out, which provides #Yara search and a GitHub-hosted Docker container. Unfortunately something happened where GitHub's download action couldn't download the GHA-built Python modules, so those were published to PyPi manually. github.com/malwaredb/ma...
#MalwareDB now has support for #Yara rules! It allows for a user to use Yara to search for samples within the allowed sample subset. It's not yet fully tested so likely has bugs. github.com/malwaredb/ma...
GitHub - malwaredb/malwaredb-rs: MalwareDB: bookkeeping for malware, goodware, and unknown files with relationship discovery
MalwareDB: bookkeeping for malware, goodware, and unknown files with relationship discovery - malwaredb/malwaredb-rs
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January 19, 2026 at 4:56 PM
#MalwareDB now has support for #Yara rules! It allows for a user to use Yara to search for samples within the allowed sample subset. It's not yet fully tested so likely has bugs. github.com/malwaredb/ma...