Posts Tagged ‘appearance’

Reversal of fortune: Attempts to disguise file names

Sep

2012

Social engineering tactics are vast and varied, and we see all sorts of methods being used on a daily basis by malware authors, in their attempts to compromise your machine. One such method that we see often is malware being distributed as an alluring or enticing link or file, and we know that some users […]

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StalkTrak Treks Across Twitter

Aug

2012

There seems to be a bit of a thing – technical term – happening on Twitter at the moment. Click to Enlarge Users are reporting “signing in” to an app / website called StalkTrak(dot)com, then complaining about a combination of DMs and publicly posted messages. The bulk of the messages are along the lines of […]

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The rise of a new Java vulnerability – CVE-2012-1723

Aug

2012

Last month, we saw a new Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-1723) being used by malware. This new Java vulnerability is a type-confusion, same as the notorious CVE-2012-0507 AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability. The vulnerability was resolved on June 12th by Oracle and a discussion on the vulnerability was made public on June 13th (though some security updates had appeared in […]

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