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Compromised Japanese Sites Lead to Malware

03

Jun

2013

When it comes to cybercriminal targets, it truly is a popularity contest. Multiple sites were found compromised, including those popular with Japanese users. There were 40 compromised domains identified using feedback provided by Trend Micro Deep Discovery; since yesterday almost 60,000 hits have been recorded on these sites.One of the compromised sites contains an obfuscated […]

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Downloader.Liftoh Cousin to W32.Phopifas?

24

May

2013

Downloader.Liftoh is a Trojan horse detected by Symantec that downloads malware onto the compromised computer without the user noticing.A new variant of this threat, discovered in early May, was identified in some Spanish-speaking countries in Latin America. This variant of Downloader.Liftoh sends messages in Spanish instead of English. The threat is similar to W32.Phopifas which […]

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From a Site Compromise to Full Root Access – Symlinks to Root – Part I

24

May

2013

When an attacker manages to compromise and get access to a website, they won’t likely stop there, they will aim to gain full root (admin) access to the entire server. If there are more websites hosted on the server being attacked, It is likely they will attempt to compromise every single one of them.How can […]

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