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Opera.com hacked, distributed malware signed with their certificate to probably thousand of users

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Jun

2013

According to a post on the Opera Security Blog, the company suffered on June 19th “a targeted attack on internal network infrastructure”. The attackers were able to obtain at least one old and expired Opera code signing certificate, which they have used to sign some malware. This has allowed them to distribute malicious software which […]

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South Korean Government DNS Servers Targeted By DDoS Attacks

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Jun

2013

Our investigation of the June 25 South Korea incident led us to the compromise of an auto-update mechanism attack scenario. As part of our continuous monitoring, we documented another scenario (presented in this blog entry) pertaining to a DDoS attack scenario launched at specific sites.The recent attack against South Korean websites has revealed a certain […]

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Styx Exploit Kit Takes Advantage of Vulnerabilities

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Jun

2013

Web-based malware has increased over the last few years due to an abrupt spike in new exploit kits. These kits target vulnerabilities in popular applications and provide an effective way for cybercriminals to distribute malware. We have already discussed Red Kit, a common exploit kit. Recently McAfee Labs has observed an increase in the prevalence […]

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