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High-profile, legitimate site contains malware

04

Sep

2012

Not only users visiting high-risk sites need avast! protection, but also, for example, visitors of the well-known site samsungimaging.net (the Samsung SMART CAMERA blog) were able to notice that their avast! protected them from a threat. Yesterday, on this site AVAST began to detect malicious Java content. The malicious file was called Gondvv.class, which is […]

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A technical analysis on CVE-2012-1535 Adobe Flash Player vulnerability: Part 2

31

Aug

2012

Part 1 of this blog described and analyzed the CVE-2012-1535 vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Here, we describe the fixes and mitigations that can be employed for this and similar exploits. Fixes and mitigations To avoid being vulnerable, you need to update Adobe Flash Player to the latest release from here. Recent versions of Adobe Flash Player […]

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Protecting yourself from CVE-2012-4681 Java exploits

30

Aug

2012

As we’ve discussed in previous posts, we are seeing more malware abusing Java issues, including CVE-2012-4681. Currently this vulnerability is an 0-day, and to date there is no patch available from the vendor. It is known that JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 7 is vulnerable to attack on this sandbox-breach vulnerability, while JRE 6 is not. […]

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