Posts Tagged ‘decent job’

Jumping in to the Flames of SkyWiper

May

2012

There has been quite a bit of analysis and speculation about the Flamer/SkyWiper threat. As we started to analyze this threat we instantly knew from the very beginning that this is going to be a giant undertaking and potentially very long term. We wanted to pause to help the people we protect visualize the kind […]

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MIDI Files – Mid-Way to Infection

Feb

2012

Microsoft’s January patch MS12-004 addressed a few vulnerabilities in Windows Media components. One particular issue, CVE-2012-0003, can be exploited via Windows Media Player ActiveX, as it leverages a heap overflow occurring in ‘midiOutPlayNextPolyEvent’ function within the Windows Multimedia Library, winmm.dll. The bad guys didn’t waste time and this vulnerability is now exploited in the wild […]

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Facebook Spammers Use Amazon’s Cloud

Jan

2012

Facebook is recently doing a decent job at keeping survey spam posts at bay (all things considered). So, what’s an entrepreneurial Facebook spammer to do? Well, some have tweaked their master plan, and have expanded their use of “cloud” services. Using Amazon’s S3 file hosting service solves quite a few problems for these perpetrators. Number […]

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