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Internet Explorer Zero-Day Used in Watering Hole Attack: Q&A

Jan

2013

In a recent blog, Symantec reported on a new Internet Explorer zero-day being actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft has since released Security Advisory 2794220 which confirms the Microsoft Internet Explorer ‘CDwnBindInfo’ Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-4792) is a zero-day vulnerability which affects Internet Explorer 8, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 6.The following […]

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GrooveMonitor: Another Wiper Copycat?

Dec

2012

Yesterday the Iranian CERT made an announcement about a new piece of wiper-like malware. We detect these files as Trojan.Win32.Maya.a. This is an extremely simplistic attack. In essence, the attacker wrote some BAT files and then used a BAT2EXE tool to turn them into Windows PE files. The author seems to have used (a variant […]

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Rogue Yahoo! Messenger Cashes In on Latest YM Update

Dec

2012

On the heels of Yahoo!’s recent announcement of upcoming updates for the Messenger platform, certain bad guys are already taking this chance to release their own, malicious versions of Yahoo! Messenger.While doing my research, I encountered this particular file (detected by Trend Micro as TROJ_ADCLICK.TNH), which looks like a legitimate Yahoo! Messenger executable.However, when I […]

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