From Malware Labs to Persistent Data Disks

Thousands of Viruses on My Laptop I know not everyone gets to attend ethical hacker training. Especially not malware analysis workshops. The interesting part? Having thousands of viruses and malware samples on your computer. Don’t try this at home. Unless you know exactly what you’re doing. First thing you need - a proper virtualization solution. Full virtualization. Don’t even think about Docker for this. We used VirtualBox back then. And we got access to a 6-10GB data disk. That we had to attach to the workshop VM, which was Kali Linux. ...

November 1, 2025 · 8 min · Zoltan Toma