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05 July 2007, 14:11

Security researchers often use virtual machines to sandbox malware while examining and testing it. As a countermeasure attackers try to detect such virtual environments and look for ways to break the containment to reach the host system. A paper by Symantec Advanced Threat Research discusses potential attack vectors and provides specific information for Xen, VMware, VirtualPC and others, complete with example code.

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