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The Friday Scam, Spam and Malware Roundup

02

Nov

2012

A little bit of a round-up as the week rumbles to a close (assuming you don’t include Saturday and Sunday, which might cause some confusion in your personal life so it isn’t really advisable): 1) An email is currently pinging across mailboxes claiming “A document was sent to you using a Xerox WorkJet Pro”. Last […]

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This Spam Gives Recipients a Second Chance

16

Oct

2012

This latest find from our researchers in the AV Labs is filed under the “We Found Another Facebook Spam” pile. Let it be a warning to you, dear Reader, about this mail that purports to originate from Facebook and bears the subject “Verify your account”. It isn’t clear what this verification notice is about unless […]

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The rise of a new Java vulnerability – CVE-2012-1723

02

Aug

2012

Last month, we saw a new Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-1723) being used by malware. This new Java vulnerability is a type-confusion, same as the notorious CVE-2012-0507 AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability. The vulnerability was resolved on June 12th by Oracle and a discussion on the vulnerability was made public on June 13th (though some security updates had appeared in […]

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