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Symantec Protection for Trojan.FakeSafe

17

May

2013

Today, Trend Micro published a report about a targeted attack campaign they’re calling SafeNet (the campaign’s name is unrelated to the security company of the same name). The group behind this campaign is utilizing spear phishing emails with malicious attachments. These attachments are document files that exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word. Some of the documents […]

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday – May 2013

15

May

2013

Hello, welcome to this month’s blog on the Microsoft patch release. This month the vendor is releasing 10 bulletins covering a total of 33 vulnerabilities. Eleven of this month’s issues are rated ‘Critical’.As always, customers are advised to follow these security best practices: Install vendor patches as soon as they are available. Run all software […]

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CVE-2012-1876: Recent update to the Cool Exploit Kit landing page

08

May

2013

A recently debuted exploit kit (EK), called “Cool EK,” and detected by us with the name Exploit:JS/Coolex, has been known to include various exploits targeting Oracle JRE, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player to Windows kernel-mode drivers. If you’re unlucky enough to visit a webpage that hosts Cool EK, you might encounter all these exploits in […]

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