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Experts at SophosLabs are recommending that businesses and organisations check that they are keeping up-to-date with their security patches, in the light of a malware attack that was seen today – targeting a defence contractor.The attack is similar in nature to one which SophosLabs intercepted a couple of years ago, where a malicious PDF file […]

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As mentioned in our previous post, the actors behind the targeted attack campaigns we’re monitoring updated, and still are updating, the tools of their trade to further their agenda and achieve exploitation. Using a fairly new vulnerability such as CVE-2012-0158, patched barely 2 weeks ago, may allow these attackers the window of opportunity to effectively […]

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Days after Microsoft released six bulletins, we now have just spotted a number of Trojanized RTF files circulating in-the-wild. The said files are exploiting CVE-2012-0158, which is included in MS12-027. That particular bulletin affects a number of Microsoft programs, particularly versions of MS Office, Visual FoxPro, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, as well as SQL Server. […]

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