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Microsoft Security Advisory 2718704

06

Jun

2012

On Sunday, Microsoft issued Security Advisory 2718704 which announces an update that revokes the trust of two Microsoft-issued intermediate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates for all currently supported versions of Windows. The certificates revoked are: Microsoft Enforced Licensing Intermediate PCA (2 certificates) Microsoft Enforced Licensing Registration Authority CA (SHA1) As outlined in Microsoft’s initial advisory, analysis […]

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Spreading the Flame: Skywiper Employs ‘Windows Update’

05

Jun

2012

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2718704, in which the company disclosed that it recently became aware of the Flamer/Skywiper threat, which uses certificates derived from the Microsoft Certificate Authority.The actual certificate in question was used to sign at least one of the attack components associated with the module in the Skywiper framework.This is how the […]

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W32.Flamer: Leveraging Microsoft Digital Certificates

04

Jun

2012

Microsoft has released Security Advisory 2718704 in relation to Flamer. Flamer used a Microsoft supplied certificate to sign components of Flamer, which would chain up to the trusted Microsoft Root Authority. These signed components would thus appear to come from Microsoft. Microsoft Terminal Services (or Remote Desktop Protocol) allows thin-clients access to Windows applications or […]

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