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“Boston Marathon” spam / askmeaboutcctv.com

Apr

2013

This pretty shameful Boston marathon themed spam leads to malware on askmeaboutcctv.com:Sample 1:From: Graham Jarvis [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 April 2013 09:49Subject: Video of Explosion at the Boston Marathon 2013hxxp:||61.63.123.44/news.htmlSample 2:From: Sally Rasmussen [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 17 April 2013 09:49To: UK HPEA 2Subject: Aftermath to explosion at Boston Marathonhxxp:||190.245.177.248/news.html(Note that the payload links have been lightly obfuscated, […]

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How to protect your computer against dangerous Java Applets

Apr

2013

Java exploits represent a common attack vector used by the bad guys to infiltrate vulnerable computers via the web browser. We wrote about the rise of Java exploits as early as 2010, and we haven’t seen that trend decline. In fact, in the first quarter of 2013 alone, we’ve seen three Java remote code execution […]

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Why we love specifications (not)! Part II

Apr

2013

Dealing with file formats is not really enjoyed by us. Usually the format designers haven’t had the security and parsing by foreign applications in mind, sometimes the specifications are hard to get, but, what is worst is the specification which claims something and then the major implementation does not follow it, allowing the bad guys […]

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