In our new post, "Unmasking Hidden Cyberthreats with Code Insight", Bernardo Quintero discusses real-world cases where AI-powered code analysis unveils malware, phishing attempts, and more: blog.virustotal.com/2024/01/uncove…

Need to get up and running your VT Livehunt rules? Our Cheat Sheet will streamline your monitoring rule creation. All details here, by Ralcaz : blog.virustotal.com/2024/02/vt-liv…

Harness TTPs for malware hunting! Our new blog post shows you how to leverage VirusTotal to hunt for ransomware, keyloggers & more, by leximagination : blog.virustotal.com/2024/02/follow…

Threat actors actively leverage COM object hijacking for persistence and privilege escalation. We identified the most commonly abused COM objects and CLSIDs to help you stay safe by Joseliyo: blog.virustotal.com/2024/03/com-ob…

Threat intelligence just got easier. Use VirusTotal Threat Landscape to track threat actors & prioritize threats. Our latest blog shows how CTI teams win, by Ralcaz: blog.virustotal.com/2024/03/know-y…

We are proud to partner with @TheSOCAcademy to level up your threat analysis skills. Get more details on this course from its founder, Laura, in our latest blog: blog.virustotal.com/2024/04/master…

Excited to share my new post on how Gemini 1.5 Pro can now analyze entire binaries, offering a new & scalable approach to threat detection. Working on producing these reports at scale - stay tuned! cloud.google.com/blog/topics/th… #malwareanalysis #reverseengineering #AI

Discover how we use Gemini 1.5 Pro to improve malware analysis! Gemini's capability to tackle up to 1 million tokens makes a difference, not only when facing huge macros, but also providing a way to automate analysis of decompiled code, by Bernardo Quintero : blog.virustotal.com/2024/04/analyz…

VirusTotal's role within Google Threat Intelligence and its continued dedication to the security community. Insights from founder Bernardo Quintero: blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/virust…

VirusTotal's Crowdsourced AI initiative welcomes a new model by Dubin for analyzing suspicious macros in Microsoft Office files. This integration strengthens our Code Insight capabilities, by Bernardo Quintero: blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/crowds…

"YARA is dead, long live YARA-X!" 🎉 After 15 years, YARA gets a full rewrite in Rust, bringing enhanced performance, security, and user experience. Dive into the details in latest blog post by Victor M. Alvarez : blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/yara-i…

YARA is dead, long live YARA-X (ok, a bit too dramatic, but long live YARA-X!) by Victor M. Alvarez: blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/yara-i…

Hunt APTs by their images & artifacts! New blog on tracking adversaries using delivery-stage intel by Joseliyo: blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/tracki…

We Made It, Together: 20 Years of VirusTotal! by Bernardo Quintero: blog.virustotal.com/2024/05/we-mad…

Improve your research skills with this tutorial on using the VirusTotal dataset, developed in partnership with SentinelLabs! Get expert tips and tricks from Joseliyo and Aleksandar Milenkoski: blog.virustotal.com/2024/08/VT-S1-…

Using Google NotebookLM's innovative Audio Overview feature to make threat intelligence simple and accessible, by Bernardo Quintero blog.virustotal.com/2024/09/virust…

Unveiling Hidden Connections: JA4 Client Fingerprinting on VirusTotal by Karl Hiramoto blog.virustotal.com/2024/10/unveil…

What 17,845 GitHub Repos Taught Us About Malicious MCP Servers blog.virustotal.com/2025/06/what-1…

YARA-X 1.0.0: The Stable Release and Its Advantages blog.virustotal.com/2025/06/yara-x…

21 years of VirusTotal 2004: 843 viruses a week, mostly known, repetitive worms. Today: 500,000+ new and unique malware samples discovered daily. The scale and complexity have skyrocketed, but our collaborative mission remains the same. A huge thank you to our community.