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CVE-2012-1535 Exploit Leads to Backdoor

17

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of an exploit targeting the CVE-2012-1535, a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to drop a backdoor into the vulnerable system. The said exploit masquerades as a .DOC file (detected as TROJ_MDROP.EVL) that possibly arrives as an attachment to email messages. Users who are tricked into opening the said file actually […]

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MSRT August ’12 – What’s the buzz with Bafruz?

14

Aug

2012

For this month’s Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release, we will include two families: Win32/Matsnu and Win32/Bafruz. Our focus for this blog will be Bafruz, which is a multi-component backdoor that creates a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network of infected computers (using C&C, for instance), and includes a nasty list of payloads, as well as unique means […]

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Nepalese government websites compromised to serve Zegost RAT

08

Aug

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that two Nepalese government websites, the National Information Technology Center (NITC) and the Office of the Prime Minister and Council Minister (nitc.gov.np and opmcm.gov.np respectively), have been compromised and injected with malicious code that tries to exploit the Java vulnerability CVE-2012-0507. The aim of this injection is to install, through successfully exploiting that Java weakness, […]

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