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Backdoor.Barkiofork Targets Aerospace and Defense Industry

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Jan

2013

A few weeks ago, we observed a spear phishing campaign targeting groups in the aerospace and defense industry. We identified at least 12 different organizations targeted in this attack. These organizations include aviation, air traffic control, and government and defense contractors. Figure 1. Spear phishing email targeting aerospace and defense industry In choosing their targets, the attackers […]

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Anonymous Releases ‘Warhead’ via #OpLastResort

28

Jan

2013

There has been a great explosion of chatter in the last day around Anonymous’ “Operation Last Resort” (a.k.a. #OpLastResort).The entities behind the various “official” communications around this operation have a sense of humor that we must point out (especially because if you don’t catch it, you will end up wiping your disk).BackgroundIn typical fashion with […]

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Trojan.Pandex – A New Spam Affair

24

Jan

2013

Last week we saw how W32.Waledac was getting cozy with W32.Virut, but let us not forget about other spam botnets, like Trojan.Pandex (a.k.a. Cutwail), as they also persist in their propagation affairs.The people behind W32.Cridex have used many attack vectors to spread the malware, including taking advantage of exploit kits like Blackhole, or attempting to […]

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