Last week, McAfee’s Foundstone Incident Response team got hold of a piece of malware that was sent out during a phishing campaign. The campaign targeted several companies and institutes in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Bahrain, and a couple of Caribbean islands.The executable that was sent with the email was called emiratesstatement.exe and the pictogram […]
[This blog was primarily written by Xiaoning Li of Intel Labs, with assistance from Peter Szor of McAfee Labs.]In February 2013, the Adobe Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) released security advisory APSA13-02. In that report they listed two vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0640 and CVE-2013-0641) that were widely exploited. At Intel Labs and McAfee Labs we ran […]
Yesterday Adobe released an advisory for a vulnerability in the Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat products. The vulnerability, titled ‘U3D Memory Corruption Vulnerability’ was part of a targeted attack and discovered by Lockheed Martin’s Computer Incident Response Team. This is not the first time a targeted attack has been aimed at the US defense industry. […]
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