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Recent Threats Highlight Vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0779 and CVE-2012-0507

08

May

2012

Targeted Attack Uses Recent Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) Reports of a targeted attack surfaced recently. One such attack arrives as an email message that trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The malicious attachment, as expected, is a file that exploits CVE-2012-0779, found in several versions of Adobe Flash Player. Exploitation results to a […]

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Widespread malware abuses unsecured Geolocation Service of Adult Website

04

May

2012

While researching outbound malware communications to improve detections for our products, we recently made an interesting discovery. Thousands of samples running in our malware lab reached out to the URL promos.fling.com/geo/txt/city.php. At first we suspected this to be a command and control (C&C) server of botnet malware. However, Websense® categorization of the main Web page of the […]

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Ransomware Crimeware Kits

27

Apr

2012

In a recent blog we talked about Trojan.Ransomlock.K and the use of a control panel on a command-and-control (C&C) server which gave it the ability to serve localized social engineering messages to victims depending on their IP location. While at that time we had not yet encountered a crimeware kit for this threat, we have […]

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