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VMware has released security updates for several of its virtualization products in order to address critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to break out of #virtual machines and execute rogue code on the host operating systems. The code execution flaws affect the Windows versions of VMware Workstation, VMware Player and VMware Horizon Client. They were […]

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Lately, we have seen a good number of samples generating some interesting network traffic through our automated framework. The HTTP network pattern generated contains a few interesting parameters, names like “&av” (for antivirus?) and “&vm=”(VMware?), The response received looked to be encrypted, which drew my attention. Also, all the network traffic contained the same host […]

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A day or two ago, our friends at Symantec released a blog post about the growing success of "ransomware". (They also have a whitepaper here, and a nice gallery of screenshots of several variations here.) Briefly, ransomware is malware that either locks up a computer, or encrypts data files, and then offers to restore access […]

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