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Malware Masquerades as Flash Player for Android

11

May

2012

Last month, we have seen cybercriminals use the popularity of apps like Instagram and Angry Birds Space to deliver malware on Android phones. This time, we spotted the same social engineering tactic using Adobe‘s name. This webpage is also found to be hosted on Russian domains, similar to the fake Instagram and Angry Birds Space […]

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Recent Threats Highlight Vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0779 and CVE-2012-0507

08

May

2012

Targeted Attack Uses Recent Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) Reports of a targeted attack surfaced recently. One such attack arrives as an email message that trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The malicious attachment, as expected, is a file that exploits CVE-2012-0779, found in several versions of Adobe Flash Player. Exploitation results to a […]

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Targeted Attacks Using Confusion (CVE-2012-0779)

05

May

2012

Adobe today issued a security bulletin for a vulnerability in Flash Player, which is currently being used in limited targeted attacks. The targeted attacks leveraging the Adobe Flash Player CVE-2012-0779 Object Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) have been in the wild for over a week. The vector of infection, as in most targeted […]

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