Posts Tagged ‘jar file’

Java Back Door Acts as Bot

Aug

2013

The current threat landscape is often driven by web-based malware and exploit kits that are regularly updated with newly found vulnerabilities. Recently, we received an interesting malware binary–a JAR package that opens a back door for an attacker to execute commands and acts as a bot after infection. This archive does not exploit any Java […]

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The Dangers of a Royal Baby: Scams Abound

Jul

2013

Big news stories are always an opportunity for scammers and spammers, who attempt to redirect users to malicious exploit kits or other unwanted services. Britain’s royal baby is the latest news to offer cover for malware. We have already found a lot of spam messages regarding the birth and baby that lead users to the […]

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FlimKit coughs up more Malvertising

Jul

2013

FlimKit is a known exploit kit which takes advantage of Java Vulnerabilities in order to drop malicious content on the victim’s PC. Previous iterations of this Exploit Kit were known to be distributed through at least 1 popunder service. The EK itself is fairly straight forward. Like so many other kits, it begins with a […]

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