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Chinese Underground Creates Tool Exploiting Apache Struts Vulnerability

Aug

2013

About a month ago, the Apache Software Foundation released Struts 2.3.15.1, an update to the popular Java Web application development framework. The patch was released because vulnerabilities in older versions of Struts could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. Since then, we’ve found that hackers in the Chinese underground have created an […]

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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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Rise of the social bots

Jun

2013

?Malware authors and distributors follow the money. When you consider the growing popularity of social networking websites, it should come as no surprise that malware continues to maintain its presence in this area. Every year we are spending a growing proportion of our time online using social media like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. What does this […]

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