Posts Tagged ‘initial analysis’

Cruel Boston Marathon spam lures users to exploit pages

Apr

2013

You probably think the person or people behind the Boston Marathon bombing are reprehensible scum? Well, meet their cousins – the slimebags behind the latest malware-distributing spam run we have seen ramp-up overnight. Members of the AVG Web Threats Research team have discovered spam messages using the Boston Marathon explosion to lure potential victims to […]

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Adobe Zero-day Used in LadyBoyle Attack

Feb

2013

Yesterday, Adobe released an out of cycle patch that fixed two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0633, CVE-2013-0634) for Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 and earlier versions for both Windows and Macintosh. The patch was released because the zero-days were being actively exploited for attacks in the wild. Symantec recommends applying the patch immediately. Reports of the attack seen in […]

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Is it Wiper again? Not exactly !

Dec

2012

Targeted attacks have been around for a number of years, that attempts to breach the security measures of an organization. Each targeted attack uses its own aspects to steal valuable information of the targeted organization. In addition, CERTCC.IR has discovered a targeted attack that wipes files stored on the hard disks.Overview of the Attack The infection […]

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