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Poisoned DOC file used in targeted malware attack against military contractor

03

Aug

2012

Experts at SophosLabs are recommending that businesses and organisations check that they are keeping up-to-date with their security patches, in the light of a malware attack that was seen today – targeting a defence contractor.The attack is similar in nature to one which SophosLabs intercepted a couple of years ago, where a malicious PDF file […]

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The owls are not what they seem

02

Aug

2012

Sometimes malware really doesn’t want to be analyzed by researchers and analysts, and refuses to run in a testing environment or when being debugged. Today, we will look into one sample which does even more and completely changes its behavior when being analyzed. Actually, it pretends to be just ordinary backdoor probably to discourage malware […]

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APTFC

18

Jul

2012

“APT” is a term created by the U.S. Air Force to describe Chinese threat actors. The most common case where term APT is used is a targeted attack. Most of which are done via spoofed email messages. Most of which contain booby-trapped document attachments. Most of which show some actual content to the victim in […]

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