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Elderwood Project Behind Latest Internet Explorer Zero-Day Vulnerability

04

Jan

2013

In our recent blogs about the latest Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, we explained what watering hole attacks are and referenced our research paper about the Elderwood Project. The paper highlights a string of watering hole attacks by the Elderwood group. After revisiting those previous attacks, we have been able to confirm that this latest Internet […]

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Reflection in recent JAVA vulnerabilities

04

Dec

2012

In the past few months, we encountered two serious Java vulnerabilities; one is CVE-2012-4681, the other is CVE-2012-5076. Both of them have some common characteristics, the first being that both of them are Java applet programs. The second is that they use a Java reflection mechanism to break Java applet security restrictions and load malicious […]

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New Mac Malware Found on Dalai Lama Related Website

03

Dec

2012

Acting on a tip, a member of our Threat Research team (Brod) has discovered a Dalai Lama related website is compromised and is pushing new Mac malware, called Dockster, using a Java-based exploit.Page source from gyalwarinpoche.com:Here’s a screenshot of gyalwarinpoche.com from Google’s cache:Note: Google’s November 27th snapshot also includes a link to the malicious exploit […]

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