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Two year old PDF exploit returns to popularity

17

Oct

2012

For the last two weeks we have been noticing significant increase of PDF exploit attacks being distributed by email with an attached PDF document posing as a fake invoice.However, closer examination of the PDF file has shown that the exploit uses a two-year-old classified as CVE-2010-0188. Why would anyone use so old an exploit? Well […]

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KSN: An Analysis of Web Browsers

11

Oct

2012

Today, cybercriminals are quick to exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader, Flash and Java to infect users’ computers. There is a simple reason for this popularity: exploits of vulnerabilities found in these products can infect computers regardless of which operating systems and browsers are used on the attacked machines. We assumed that the threats posed to […]

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Searching For That Adobe Cert

02

Oct

2012

You probably know by now that Adobe will revoke a compromised code signing certificate in a couple of days. As we seem to have more code signing related security incidents recently, I started to develop a couple of new tools.AnalyzePESig is a tool to check signatures in PE files, just like Sysinternals’ sigcheck. But with […]

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