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CVE-2011-3402 Vulnerability in TrueType Font Parsing

08

Nov

2011

When Duqu, which most believed to be written by the same group that wrote Stuxnet, was originally uncovered, the infection vector was still unknown; how did the machines get compromised in the first place? That changed when the Hungarian research lab, CrySys, announced that it had found the dropper which was a Word file that […]

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Revisited – TimThumb exploit effects

07

Nov

2011

We have talked about the TimThumb WordPress plugin exploit before. If you haven’t read it yet, I recommend you read our previous post here: Vulnerability in TimThumb WordPress Plugins – The Effects.Today I found quite a few TimThumb related URLs when I was checking our Advanced Classification Engine detection feedback, so I ran one of them in the lab: Obviously, the […]

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Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A

31

Oct

2011

Our description for Backdoor:OSX/Tsunami.A is now online. Tsunami is a Mac OS X backdoor with bot functionality. The bot is capable of participating in DDoS attacks, and in fact, one variant attempts to connect to an IRC server with “anonops” in its name — as in (Internet collective) Anonymous Ops. Because there is no obvious […]

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