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CVE-2012-1535 Exploit Leads to Backdoor

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of an exploit targeting the CVE-2012-1535, a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to drop a backdoor into the vulnerable system. The said exploit masquerades as a .DOC file (detected as TROJ_MDROP.EVL) that possibly arrives as an attachment to email messages. Users who are tricked into opening the said file actually […]

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ZeroAccess Rootkit Launched by Signed Installers

Nov

2011

Digital certificates and certificate authorities have been much in the news recently. Attacks–such as those used by Stuxnet, Duqu, and other malware–involving stolen certificates show an increasingly worrisome new security trend. Certificate authorities have been targeted several times in the recent past with some success. There is a large chunk of known malware signed by […]

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Adobe Releases Out-of-Band Patch

Sep

2011

Adobe released an out-of-band security update to address six critical vulnerabilities, all affecting Adobe Flash Player.One of the six, a cross-site scripting vulnerability identified as CVE-2011-2444, is reportedly being exploited in the wild. The bug is reportedly being used in targeted attacks that involve malicious links sent out to targets through email messages.Adobe attributed the […]

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