What is a body packer or drug mule? Body packers traffic drugs via the ‘corporal concealment of illicit drugs either by swallowing packets of drugs or inserting them in body cavities’ [1]. Whilst drug mules employ internal and external trafficking methods [2]. The terms body packers and drug mules shall be used interchangeably throughout the review. Cases have been reported of ‘packages stored ...

Modern malware has become a major threat to today’s Internet communications. The threat can infiltrate hosts using a variety of methods, such as attacks against known software vulnerabilities, hidden functionality in regular programs, drive-by download from unsafe web sites, and so forth. Matching a file stream against a known virus pattern is a fundamental technique for detecting viruses. With...

Signature-based malware detection is a very fundamental technique that detects malware by generating signatures. The detection however, is unable to detect obfuscated malware unless pre-generated signature is stored in the database. In this paper, we propose a combination of known packer detection, unpacking module, and heuristic scanning techniques to find and block a malicious program before ...

Collective decision-making failures are often attributed to group members’ unwillingness to express unpopular opinions, and incident investigations frequently name lack of dissent as a causal factor (Sunstein, 2006). The investigation following the Columbia space-shuttle explosion, for instance, cited a culture at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in which ‘‘it is difficult for ...

Packers have long been a valuable tool in the toolbox of offensive users for evading the detection capabilities of signature-based antivirus engines. However, selecting the packer that results in the most effective evasion of antivirus engines may not be a trivial task due to diversity in the capabilities of both antivirus and packers. In this paper, we propose the creation of an online automat...

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Background: Intra-corporeal concealment of illicit drugs known as ‘body packing’ is uncommonly reported. These drugs mainly comprise opium, heroin, cocaine, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (ecstasy), amphetamines, and marijuana or hashish. Body packers may also be called swallowers, internal carriers, couriers or mules.  Although this practice is not new, its medical complications have alway...