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Blackhole Spam Run Evades Detection Using Punycode

20

May

2013

The Blackhole Exploit Kit (BHEK) spam run has already assumed various disguises during its course. Some variants have taken various forms, such as official bank notice, cable provider email update, social networking email, and fake courier notification.Lately, we have seen a slew of spam crafted as a notice from the popular retail chain Walmart. However, […]

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Adobe Reader and CRLs

14

May

2013

There’s something that I wanted to test out for quite some time, but kept postponing until recently. Adobe Reader will ask confirmation before it retrieves a URL when a PDF document contains an action to do so. But what about the Certificate Revocation List in a signed PDF document?When you open a signed PDF document […]

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CVE-2012-1876: Recent update to the Cool Exploit Kit landing page

08

May

2013

A recently debuted exploit kit (EK), called “Cool EK,” and detected by us with the name Exploit:JS/Coolex, has been known to include various exploits targeting Oracle JRE, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player to Windows kernel-mode drivers. If you’re unlucky enough to visit a webpage that hosts Cool EK, you might encounter all these exploits in […]

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