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Governments Recruiting Backdoor Authors #germany

07

Sep

2012

Just couple of years ago, it would have been unthinkable that governments would be openly recruiting trojan and backdoor developers to work for them. Yet, that’s exactly what’s happening now. For a fresh example, here’s an ad from the website of the German Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) They are looking for a developer. Let’s […]

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Java Runtime Environment 1.7 Zero-Day Exploit Delivers Backdoor

29

Aug

2012

An unpatched JRE 1.7/Java 7 zero-day vulnerability was recently found to be exploited by a malicious .JAR file hosted on a specific site. Successful exploit leads to the download of a backdoor, in effect allowing remote malicious users to execute their desired commands on the vulnerable system. The zero-day exploit successfully runs in all versions […]

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Ramadan-Themed Email, Spoofed Event Invitation Lead to Malware

23

Aug

2012

The more things change, the more they remain the same. Cybercriminals are still using various news events as bait to get users to read their emails and install malware. Proof: we received email samples that used the Ramadan and an upcoming conference – all to lure users into downloading and executing the malicious attachments. Ramadan-Themed […]

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