Welcome to the 2008 Malware Challenge!!!

Malware has become an ever-present danger in today's computing world. Due to the constantly changing nature of malware, analysts cannot rely on the traditional means of protection, anti-virus software, to identify and protect their systems.

Analysts now need to be able to analyze malware that anti-virus software does not detect.

This is what the challenge is about.

The 2008 Malware Challenge is the first of what we hope to be an annual challenge where participants will be given a chance to analyze a piece of malware, use their skills to see what they can determine about the malware and win some prizes in the process!

NEWS

October 9, 2008

Submissions have started to trickle in. To date, we've gotten over 300 downloads of the malware! Very exciting for us.

We have gotten a number of people asking how we will be "grading" the submissions. We have added a new question to the FAQ describing the process.

October 7, 2008

The malware challenge has been open for 6 days now and we've had over 100 downloads! We've also added another prize for the challenge on the prize page.

October 1, 2008

The malware challenge is open!!! Download the malware from here.

September 26, 2008

More prizes are rolling in as the contest gets closer! Check out the prizes page to see what you can win from the contest! We'd also like to thank a new sponsor, Hurricane Labs, for donating a Best Buy gift certificate!

September 21, 2008

The site has gone live and we're excitedly waiting for the contest to begin. Only a few more days until October 1st.

The prizes page continues to grow as more sponsors genorously donate stuff for us to give away. Today, Steve Jackson games has agreed to give us prizes to give away - thanks! We should note that many of the prizes say TBA. While we know what we are getting from the sponsors, we are not putting the names on the prize page until we have the prize in hand.