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Revisited – TimThumb exploit effects

07

Nov

2011

We have talked about the TimThumb WordPress plugin exploit before. If you haven’t read it yet, I recommend you read our previous post here: Vulnerability in TimThumb WordPress Plugins – The Effects.Today I found quite a few TimThumb related URLs when I was checking our Advanced Classification Engine detection feedback, so I ran one of them in the lab: Obviously, the […]

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The continuation of dangerous rogue ads on Bing (and Yahoo)

15

Oct

2011

We’ve noted this before, but Microsoft needs to get a handle on ad placements on Bing. Ok, so Bing isn’t the most widely used search engine, but remember that Yahoo plays a part here as well. In this case, we’re talking Sirefef (ZeroAccess aka Max++), probably the nastiest piece of malware circulating on the ‘net […]

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Government, Public Interest and Trojans

11

Oct

2011

Mikko Hyponen, who has been tracking the R2D2 thing assiduously, observes with some surprise that he hasn't seen a single article on "R2D2" that would try to defend the need for lawful interception. Actually, I haven't either, but I think there are at least two separate issues here. It seems fairly clear from the reports I've seen […]

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