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Zeus Campaign Targets Israeli Public Sector

Oct

2015

Malicious #rich text format (#rtf) documents are often used to spread #malware, and a recent #attack #campaign targeting the Israeli public sector has been using RTF files to inject the ##zeus trojan. Security researchers at Check Point have identified a series of attacks after a high-profile client submitted a malicious RTF file for analysis. The […]

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Symantec Protections for TravNet

Jun

2013

Today, Kaspersky published a paper titled “The NeTTraveler (aka ‘TravNeT’).” The paper provides analysis on a targeted attack campaign that is targeting various organizations worldwide, such as governments, industries, and non-government organizations. This research is related to the McAfee blog “Travnet Trojan Could Be Part of APT Campaign” released earlier in March about a campaign […]

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Malware Targeting Windows 8 Uses Google Docs

Nov

2012

Initially, I thought that Backdoor.Makadocs was a simple and typical back door Trojan horse. It receives and executes commands from a command-and-control (C&C) server and it gathers information from the compromised computer including the host name and the operating system type. Interestingly, the malware author has also considered the possibility that the compromised computer could […]

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