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JPEGs Leveraged for Targeted Attacks

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Nov

2013

Trend Micro has found that some cyber-attacks rely on maliciously crafted JPEG files to perform updates on themselves or to deploy new threats. The image files contain encrypted data that the company researchers managed to extract and thus analyze the content, which consists in configuration files and binaries. Tracked to websites located in the Asia-Pacific […]

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Banking Trojans disguise attack targets in the Cloud – Dynamic downloading of attack configurations offers new possibilities

10

Sep

2013

Banking Trojans traditionally use configuration files that have been stored on the computer being attacked. These configuration files contain the addresses of the compromised websites, and the code, called the Webinject, which they are seeking to add to these websites via the banking Trojans. This code is then responsible for stealing access data and personal […]

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An Outbreak: Backdoor Simda!

11

Jul

2013

Backdoor Simda is known for about 3 years. Recently a new major outbreak occurred. The new variant of the backdoor is downloaded from certain sites containing video. The frames in the video propose to download new version of Flash Player able to play a movie in newer flash format. The backdoor executable is downloaded and […]

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