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Canada’s Electronic Spy Agency Makes Its Malware Analysis Tool Public

By CircleID Reporter
  • October 20, 2017, 10:11 pm PDT
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Canada’s Communications Security Establishment (CSE) which rarely discloses detail of its activities has taken the “unprecedented step” of releasing one of its own cyber defense tools to the public, in a bid to help companies and organizations better defend their computers and networks against malicious threats. Matthew Braga, reporting in CBC: “CSE has acknowledged it needs to do a better job of explaining to Canadians exactly what it does. Today, it is pulling back the curtain on an open-source malware analysis tool called Assemblyline that CSE says is used to protect the Canadian government’s sprawling infrastructure each day. ... Assemblyline is described by CSE as akin to a conveyor belt: files go in, and a handful of small helper applications automatically comb through each one in search of malicious clues.”

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