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Targeted Attack: London 2012 Olympics

28

May

2012

We’ve come across a malicious Olympic themed PDF earlier this morning while data mining our back end for documents which drop executables (those are never a good thing, unsurprisingly). The PDF exploits CVE-2010-2883, which affects older versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A typical PDF exploit will launch a clean decoy as part of its […]

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Threat Encyclopedia: Blackhole Exploit Kit

24

May

2012

Introduction to Threat Encyclopedia The Threat Encyclopedia is where we arm you with all the knowledge you need to understand and avoid malware of all types. This isn’t an in-depth analysis of malware code but instead covers the basics and helps you understand what antivirus programs like AVG protect you from. Blackhole Exploit Kits: What […]

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Fake BBC Website Serves Exploits and Work From Home Offers

21

May

2012

In September, our friends at Sophos wrote about a fake BBC website offering up the “chance” to work from home for predictably large sums of money. No more than a day later, we were covering fake BBC video posts targeting Facebook users. Today we’re looking at a fake BBC URL which drops the end-user onto […]

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