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Flame is different in the sense that it is big in file size and complexity and it has many different possibilities, but none of the possibilities are overwhelming revolutionary or new: we have seen all these functions before. Furthermore, it is very difficult to determine how many computers have been infected and still are infected. […]

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We discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives via an attached file attached to specific email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific versions of Flash Player (CVE-2011-0611) to drop a backdoor onto users’ systems. Users who open the malicious .PPT file triggers the shellcode […]

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We have been tracking timthumb.php related attacks for a while and they are still at full force (yes, some people are still using the outdated versions and getting compromised). Just for the month of May, we identified more than 400 domains hosting backdoors for those type of attacks and a botnet with more than 1,000 […]

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