Backdoor | DataProtectionCenter.com

More Mac Malware Exploiting Java

17

Apr

2012

Reports of new Mac malware variants exploiting CVE-2012-0507 surfaced last week. The Java vulnerability is the same one used by Flashback to infect more than 600 thousand Macs. The first new threat was analyzed by the folks at Trend Micro. The Java applet for Mac actually exploits CVE-2012-0507, and if successful, the payload is the […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

CVE-2012-0158 – Now Being Used in More Tibetan-Themed Targeted Attack Campaigns

17

Apr

2012

Days after Microsoft released six bulletins, we now have just spotted a number of Trojanized RTF files circulating in-the-wild. The said files are exploiting CVE-2012-0158, which is included in MS12-027. That particular bulletin affects a number of Microsoft programs, particularly versions of MS Office, Visual FoxPro, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, as well as SQL Server. […]

Category General Written by TrendLabs 0 Comments

Tibetan-themed Campaign Pushes Hybridized Malware

14

Apr

2012

In our previous blog, we focused on the emergence of hybridized malware, in which malware arrives already infected by a file infector. In effect, there are two different malware families that will run on the infected system. In this scenario, attackers are able to maximize system compromise by deploying two different payloads in one execution, […]

Category General Written by TrendLabs 0 Comments

The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘Backdoor’

More Mac Malware Exploiting Java

CVE-2012-0158 – Now Being Used in More Tibetan-Themed Targeted Attack Campaigns

Tibetan-themed Campaign Pushes Hybridized Malware

Categories

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments

About Us

Contact Us