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Backdoor.Hikit: New Advanced Persistent Threat

24

Aug

2012

Thanks to Peter Coogan for his assistance with this research.Earlier this week Mandiant released a blog which talked about a new advanced persistent threat (APT) they found while investigating a potential compromise. Symantec detects the APT in question as Backdoor.Hikit, a Trojan that enables an attacker to gain control of compromised servers from a remote […]

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How to Ensure Vulnerabilities Are Not a Gateway to Blackhole Exploits

01

Aug

2012

Earlier in 2012, a patch was issued to correct a potential vulnerability in Parallels Plesk Panel version 10.3 or earlier, helping secure unauthorized access to the website control panel. While it is believed that this potential vulnerability is now patched, administrators who have applied this fix may have already been the victim of a compromise […]

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How to protect yourself from Java-based malware

26

Jul

2012

The last few months we have seen a drastic increase in Java-based malware abusing the CVE-2012-0507 AtomicReferenceArray type-confusion vulnerability. In addition to that, a few weeks ago, a new Java vulnerability was found (CVE-2012-1723); it is also a type-confusion vulnerability. The attack abusing this new vulnerability is also very active. Traditionally, Java has a strong […]

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