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Targeted information stealing attacks in South Asia use email, signed binaries

May

2013

In the past few months, we have analyzed a targeted campaign that tries to steal sensitive information from different organizations throughout the world, but particularly in Pakistan. During the course of our investigations we uncovered several leads that indicate this threat has its origin in India and has been going on for at least two […]

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Digging Into the Sandbox-Escape Technique of the Recent PDF Exploit

Feb

2013

As promised in our previous blog entry for the recent Adobe Reader PDF zero-day attack, we now offer more technical details on this Reader “sandbox-escape” plan. In order to help readers understand what’s going on there, we first need to provide some background.Adobe Reader’s Sandbox ArchitectureThe Adobe Reader sandbox consists of two processes: a high-privilege […]

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DaRK DDoSseR Leads to Gh0st RAT

Nov

2012

The malware BKDR_ADDNEW, better known as “DaRK DDoSseR” in the underground, is a tool that provides distributed denial of service (DDOS) capability combined with password stealing functionality. The tool costs $30 and has been available for several years.Recently, our friends at FireEye reported seeing computers that had been compromised by BKDR_ADDNEW and later updated with […]

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Targeted information stealing attacks in South Asia use email, signed binaries

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