Dutch users were recently targeted in a website compromise that involved a popular news site in the Netherlands, nu.nl. The site was compromised and modified to load a malicious iframe that resulted to visitors’ systems being infected with a SINOWAL variant. Trend Micro researcher Feike Hacquebord says that considering the different characteristics of this attack, […]
It has been a year since we have witnessed a DLL hijacking technique which loads a malicious DLL that affects hundreds of programs. The method involves dropping a collection of normal files together with the malicious DLL from within a directory. We recently analyzed the following archive sample. Only the file “deskpan.dll” was detected as […]
Microsoft has released 5 security bulletins covering a total of 15 vulnerabilities. All of these vulnerabilities are rated Important by Microsoft, even though three of them could lead to remote code execution. The patches address elevation of privileged and remote code execution vulnerabilities and may require a restart of Windows. Two of the bulletins address […]
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