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Big Increase in Distributed Brute Force Attacks Against Joomla Websites

04

Sep

2013

A few months ago, we discussed and published details about a very large brute force attack targeting WordPress sites. The attackers (bad guys) had thousands of servers at their disposal, and were attempting all types of passwords on wp-admin (WordPress admin panel) to try to get access to as many WordPress sites as possible. The […]

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G20 Summit Used as Bait to Deliver Backdoor.Darkmoon

04

Sep

2013

Ahead of this week's G20 summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, attackers are leveraging the meeting's visibility in targeted attacks. One particular campaign we have identified is targeting multiple groups. They include financial institutions, financial services companies, government organizations, and organizations involved in economic development. Figure 1. Email purporting to be from G20 Representative […]

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Java Native Layer Exploits Going Up

29

Aug

2013

Recently, security researchers disclosed two Java native layer exploits (CVE-2013-2465 and CVE-2013-2471). This caused us too look into native layer exploits more closely, as they have been becoming more common this year. At this year’s Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest, Joshua Drake showed CVE-2013-1491, which was exploitable on Java 7 running on Windows 8. CVE-2013-1493 has […]

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