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Targeted Attack: London 2012 Olympics

28

May

2012

We’ve come across a malicious Olympic themed PDF earlier this morning while data mining our back end for documents which drop executables (those are never a good thing, unsurprisingly). The PDF exploits CVE-2010-2883, which affects older versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A typical PDF exploit will launch a clean decoy as part of its […]

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CVE-2012-0158 – Now Being Used in More Tibetan-Themed Targeted Attack Campaigns

17

Apr

2012

Days after Microsoft released six bulletins, we now have just spotted a number of Trojanized RTF files circulating in-the-wild. The said files are exploiting CVE-2012-0158, which is included in MS12-027. That particular bulletin affects a number of Microsoft programs, particularly versions of MS Office, Visual FoxPro, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, as well as SQL Server. […]

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Tibetan-themed Campaign Pushes Hybridized Malware

14

Apr

2012

In our previous blog, we focused on the emergence of hybridized malware, in which malware arrives already infected by a file infector. In effect, there are two different malware families that will run on the infected system. In this scenario, attackers are able to maximize system compromise by deploying two different payloads in one execution, […]

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