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New Uyghur and Tibetan Themed Attacks Using PDF Exploits

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Mar

2013

On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy”. Previously, […]

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New Variant of Mac Revir Found

14

Nov

2012

There are reports of a new variant of Mac malware. We are aware of the attack and our customers are already protected. It’s a minor variant of Revir.C. For the payload, it’s basically still the same Imuler variant we wrote about back in September. Most probably it was rebuilt in an effort to avoid detection. […]

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Backdoor:OSX/Imuler.B No Likes Wireshark

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Sep

2012

A new variant of Mac malware — Imuler.B — has recently surfaced. It’s pretty much the same as Backdoor:OSX/Imuler.A, but with small changes and code optimizations. The current C&C server is ouchmen.com. One interesting new function: Imuler.B exits if Wireshark is found. Imuler is thought to be targeting Tibetan rights activists. In other Mac related […]

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