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Phishing Threat Uses UTF-8 BOM in ZIP Signature to Evade Detection

Apr

2013

Last week, we noticed thousands of malware files in the wild that employ a simple phishing attack by modifying the hosts file on Windows systems. What’s interesting, however, is the technique chosen by the malware authors to distribute their payload. The samples in question (Example MD5: 34d9b42bfd64c6f752fe27eef8d80c5f) are packaged in a ZIP file along with […]

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Malicious Apache module used for content injection: Linux/Chapro.A

Dec

2012

More than half of all web servers on the Internet use Apache, so when we discovered a malicious Apache module in the wild last month, being used to inject malicious content into web pages displayed by compromised web servers, we were understandably concerned. Our concern deepened when we discovered that this malware was being used […]

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Adobe Flash Update Counters CVE 2012-1535

Aug

2012

Adobe has recommended that its Flash customers update to the latest version, which addresses a vulnerability (CVE 2012-1535) in the ActiveX component of the Flash player. This flaw could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.Overview of the attack.We have also observed that the vulnerability […]

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Phishing Threat Uses UTF-8 BOM in ZIP Signature to Evade Detection

Malicious Apache module used for content injection: Linux/Chapro.A

Adobe Flash Update Counters CVE 2012-1535

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