The time between discovery of a vulnerability and the emergence of an exploit keeps getting shorter-sometimes a matter of only hours. This increases pressure on IT managers to rapidly patch production systems in conflict with configuration management and best practices for quality assurance. Many organizations struggle to keep up with the constant release of new […]
Our analysis of Trojan.Jokra, the threat which recently caused major outages within the Korean Broadcasting and Banking sectors, has produced another wiper.Security researchers the past few days have been discussing the wiper component found in this Trojan, specifically different wiper versions and the timings involved. We have seen the following strings used in four different […]
Today, the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (Crysys) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, released their research around a targeted attack they have identified, named TeamSpy. Symantec has had protections in place for this threat since 2011, and we currently detect this threat as Backdoor.Teambot. We also have the following IPS protections in […]
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