LABScon Replay | Malshare: 10 Years of Running a Public Malware Repository

Since March 2013, alongside a handful of volunteers, Silas has run a fully public, never-for-profit malware repository named MalShare. The site allows anyone to register and immediately have access to our entire collection of malware samples.

When MalShare first launched, the idea of openly sharing malware was highly controversial; Silas was told the site would never survive against existing commercial options and that it would only serve to give threat actors deeper insight into defender visibility. Now ten years later, …

access collection labscon malware malware analysis march profit public register replay repository run sharing volunteers