Thanks to the Websense® ThreatSeeker™ Network, we have detected that an Iranian website has been compromised to serve a Remote Administration Tool (RAT) called VertexNet. This website does not have a high Alexa rank, but is one of a few cases which has caught our attention. The targeted website (reachable at the URL: hxxp://www.sarifire.ir) seems to be a portal documenting the activities of firefighters in the […]
There has been quite a bit of analysis and speculation about the Flamer/SkyWiper threat. As we started to analyze this threat we instantly knew from the very beginning that this is going to be a giant undertaking and potentially very long term. We wanted to pause to help the people we protect visualize the kind […]
Recently ZTE acknowledged the existence of a vulnerability in its Android-based smartphone Score M. The said vulnerability, if exploited, can allow attackers to operate with root privileges-a scenario that can mean an attacker will have complete control over the affected phone. We have taken some time to analyze this backdoor in order to help affected […]
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