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Three Lessons from the South Korea MBR Wiper Attacks

02

Apr

2013

Last week, we posted some detailed information about the actions that the March 20, 2013 MBR wiper attacks took against systems in South Korea.Today, I’d like to take that and some additional information that has come out about the incident and draw some conclusions about what lessons this attack teaches us.When we look at the […]

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Blocking a Long-running Facebook Attack

31

Jan

2013

Part One: Today I took a look at what sorts of malicious activity we have been seeing lately coming from the Facebook ecosystem. Following a likely-looking link we had blocked as Malware, I was able to reach the following page: This is a throwaway site, new today, and was auto-flagged as malicious by our Malnet […]

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Reflection in recent JAVA vulnerabilities

04

Dec

2012

In the past few months, we encountered two serious Java vulnerabilities; one is CVE-2012-4681, the other is CVE-2012-5076. Both of them have some common characteristics, the first being that both of them are Java applet programs. The second is that they use a Java reflection mechanism to break Java applet security restrictions and load malicious […]

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