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Trend Micro Detects Reported Malicious Utilities with Adobe Certificates

03

Oct

2012

Code sign certificates assure users that any software is not maliciously altered. But what happens if a malicious program uses a legitimately issued certificate?Last week, Adobe released an advisory warning users of malicious utilities carrying legitimate Adobe certificates. According to the advisory, they are currently looking into certain utilities carrying legitimate Adobe-issued certificates. To immediately […]

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MSIE 0day – continued (with a bit of Flash as well)

21

Sep

2012

While we were researching the websites currently serving the new Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) zero-day threat, we found that the new attack is being piggybacked on a slightly older attack aimed on industrial companies’ websites. The hacked legitimate websites contain on their main pages a hidden iframe. The July.html page contains code for loading a […]

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Trojan.Taidoor: Balancing the Scales

20

Sep

2012

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the Oracle Java Runtime Environment Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) being used in a targeted attack campaign by the Nitro attackers. Recently, we have discovered another group exploiting this vulnerability in the wild: the Taidoor attackers.The Taidoor attackers began utilizing the vulnerability when the proof of concept (POC) […]

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