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More Mac Malware Exploiting Java

17

Apr

2012

Reports of new Mac malware variants exploiting CVE-2012-0507 surfaced last week. The Java vulnerability is the same one used by Flashback to infect more than 600 thousand Macs. The first new threat was analyzed by the folks at Trend Micro. The Java applet for Mac actually exploits CVE-2012-0507, and if successful, the payload is the […]

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New Mass Injection Wave of WordPress Websites on the Prowl

05

Mar

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a new wave of mass-injections of a well-known exploit that we've been following in Security LabsTM for months. The majority of targets are Web sites hosted by the WordPress content management system. At the time of writing, more than 200,000 Web pages have been compromised, amounting to close to 30,000 […]

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A Rogue by any other name…

02

Mar

2012

Rogue:Win32/FakePAV reappeared about two weeks ago after a brief hiatus and since then we’ve been seeing variants with new names for themselves just about every day. The latest versions call themselves names like “Windows Threats Destroyer”, “Windows Firewall Constructor”, “Windows Attacks Preventor” and “Windows Basic Antivirus”. You can see some examples of these iterations below. […]

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