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MIDI exploit in the wild

27

Jan

2012

Symantec Security Response is aware of in-the-wild malware exploiting the Microsoft Windows Media Player 'winmm.dll' MIDI File Parsing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (BID 51292). Microsoft has already issued a patch against this vulnerability in the monthly patch release this January. Applying the patch is strongly recommended. There are several components involved in this live attack: […]

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The Conficker worm, three years and counting

25

Nov

2011

This week marks the third anniversary of the first in the wild samples of Conficker appearing on the internet. If you recall, Conficker is the most recent widespread network worm that began to spread to millions of unpatched PCs in 2008. The first samples detected at the virus testing service Virus Total were spotted in […]

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Resurrection of CVE-2010-3333 In-The-Wild

05

Jul

2011

During the last few weeks we’ve seen massive use of the CVE-2010-3333 vulnerability for Microsoft Office. This eight months old vulnerability is used in popular documents such as a document that pretends to be “President Obama’s Speech”. Microsoft Office vulnerabilities have become very popular over the last few years and here are several samples that […]

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