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Attacks on Virtual Machine Emulators

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Overview As virtual machine emulators have become commonplace in the analysis of malicious code, malicious code has started to fight back. This paper describes known attacks against the most widely used virtual machine emulators (VMware and VirtualPC). This paper also demonstrates newly discovered attacks on other virtual machine emulators (Bochs, Hydra, QEMU, and Xen), and describes how to defend against them.

Further White Paper Details
Publisher	Symantec	File Format	PDF
Date Published	January 2007
Format	White Papers
Topics	Network Security, Security Management

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