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Massive DNS poisoning attacks in Brazil

07

Nov

2011

In the past few days several Brazilian ISPs have fallen victim to a series of DNS cache poisoning attacks. These attacks see users being redirected to install malware before connecting to popular sites. Some incidents have also featured attacks on network devices, where routers or modems are compromised remotely. Brazil has some big ISPs. Official […]

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Microsoft publishes a workaround for Duqu Malware

04

Nov

2011

We have written already about Stuxnet v2 or TR/Duqu and we mentioned that Avira detects it TR/Spy.Duqu.A and TR/Duqu.A.1. This malware uses a vulnerability in a Microsoft Windows component, the TrueType font parsing engine. The vulnerability is caused when the Windows kernel-mode driver win32k.sys fails to properly handle the TrueType font type. An attacker who […]

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‘Government’ backdoor R2D2 Trojan discovered by Chaos Computer Club

09

Oct

2011

The famous Chaos Computer Club (CCC) has announced the discovery of a backdoor Trojan horse capable of spying on online activity and recording Skype internet calls which, it says, is used by the German police force. The malware – which has been variously dubbed “0zapftis”, “Bundestrojaner” or “R2D2” – is likely to kick up a […]

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