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How Attackers Steal Private Keys from Digital Certificates

22

Feb

2013

Regular readers of the Symantec blog may sometimes read blogs that mention a fraudulent file that is signed with a valid digital certificate or that an attacker signed their malware with a stolen digital certificate.You may recall that the creators of Stuxnet, arguably the most notorious malware in history, signed it using the private keys […]

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New Adobe Vulnerabilities Being Exploited in the Wild

14

Feb

2013

Adobe posted a vulnerability report warning that vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI (11.0.1) and earlier versions are being exploited in the wild. Adobe is currently investigating this issue.According to the FireEye blog posted earlier today, the malicious file arrives as a PDF file. Upon successful exploitation of the vulnerabilities, two malicious DLL files […]

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The curious case of the Exploit:Java/CVE. infection

11

Feb

2013

When I first started working in the antivirus industry, I found that learning how Java exploits work, even at a very high level, was difficult. Even now with a few seasons under my belt, understanding the process and consequences of the exploitation of a Java vulnerability still proves challenging. Based on the feedback we see from […]

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