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Malvertising and Dynamic DNS: A Never Ending Story

09

Feb

2013

Symantec has been tracking a large malvertising campaign for over 5 months now. The campaign is still active and uses Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) to prevent itself from being tracked.The campaign spread rapidly and compromised popular domains and adult websites. High profile domains with an Alexa ranking of 5,000 or under have also been […]

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Websense Labs 2013 Security Predictions

14

Nov

2012

From mass WordPress compromises to a spear-phishing attack on the White House, there is no doubt cybercriminals gained confidence and momentum in 2012. The Websense Security Labs looked at recent security and attack trends to come up with hypotheses of the anticipated evolution of threats in 2013. Forecasting threats is a challenging task, especially when […]

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Watering Holes and Zero-Day Attacks

24

Oct

2012

The term “Watering Hole” has become a popular way to describe targeted malware attacks in which the attackers compromise a legitimate website and insert a “drive-by” exploit in order to compromise the website’s visitors. Two recent papers by our friends at RSA and Symantec documented such attacks.Of course, such attacks are not new. This technique […]

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