From: "FromTheRafters" <
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| Of course, virus (or malware) description language is not a
| programming language.
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| Butt's programs work reasonably well even though the data files
| describing the malware are stolen from the actual people doing the
| research to create them (the "engines" consuming that data are
| probably stolen as well, by this has not been demonstrated as well as
| the other aspect has).
| If you recall the "other" thieves (from China?) - they actually gave
| the same malware name (marker) in the alert, probably because the
| engine (maybe even the GUI) is stolen as well.
Yes, IObit's theft of the Malwarebytes database is an excellent
example.
Those who decrypted the IObit database and the Malwarebytes database
have *NO DOUBT* of this theft.