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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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Symantec Protection for Trojan.FakeSafe

May

2013

Today, Trend Micro published a report about a targeted attack campaign they’re calling SafeNet (the campaign’s name is unrelated to the security company of the same name). The group behind this campaign is utilizing spear phishing emails with malicious attachments. These attachments are document files that exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word. Some of the documents […]

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New Internet Explorer 8 Zero-Day Used in Watering Hole Attack

May

2013

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2847140 in response to reports regarding public exploitation of a vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer 8. Other versions such as Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, Internet Explorer 9, and Internet Explorer 10 are not affected. Initial reports indicate that a website associated with a department of the US government was […]

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