Rising antivirus star Malwarebytes has bought putative security startup ZeroVulnerabilityLabs in an effort to broaden its appeal from simply fixing malware infections to blocking them before they occur.
It's an interesting buy
for Malwarebytes, founded in 2008, which only weeks ago
announced a new cloud-based Secure Backup service as part of an ongoing diversification and expansion programme.
ZeroVulnerabilityLabs itself is barely out of the Silicon Valley starting blocks, having raised its head only late last year with the beta of its ExploitShield browser plug-in. Founded partly by exiles from Spanish cloud antivirus firm Panda Security, the firm's USP was to create a security product that could detect and block malware attacks that pounce on software exploits, including undetectable zero days.
