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Malvertising campaign hits MSN.com, NY Times, BBC, AOL

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Mar

2016

In the last couple of days, visitors of a number of highly popular websites have been targeted with malicious adverts that attempted to install malware (mostly ransomware, but also various Trojans) on their systems. The websites in question were those of the NY Times, the BBC, Newsweek, and The Hill, as well as Microsoft’s MSN […]

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New Xtreme RAT Attacks on US, Israel, and Other Foreign Governments

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Nov

2012

We recently documented an attack that leveraged the publicly available Xtreme RAT on targets in Israel and was widely reported in the media. Our friends at Norman were able to link the attack to a yearlong campaign against both Israeli and Palestinian targets. We have found that the attacks are still on-going. We have found that […]

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‘X’ is named. Alleged computer hacker at the centre of News of the World scandal

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Feb

2012

For the first time, the identity of a man at the centre of allegations that computers were hacked on behalf of the disgraced News of the World newspaper has been named. The Guardian reports that security consultant Philip Campbell Smith is alleged to have used a Trojan horse to hack into a computer belonging to […]

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