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More Mac Malware (Word Exploit) Targeting NGOs

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Mar

2012

Alienvault Labs has discovered more malware that targets human rights focused Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs). This is in addition to last week’s discovery. This time, it’s an exploit taking advantage of a 2009 vulnerability in Microsoft Word (MS09-027). Here’s an example of the decoy document which is embedded within the exploit doc. Read the details at […]

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Super Tuesday malware attack targets US voters

08

Mar

2012

A customer submitted an interesting file to SophosLabs yesterday, and asked us to take a look at it. Its name was Super_Tuesday_2012_voting_information.exe “Super Tuesday”, as American readers are probably all too aware, is the day when the largest number of American states vote to choose which candidate will run for the job of president in […]

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Military Targets

18

Jul

2011

There’s a lot of talk about targeted attacks against defense contractors. These attacks are still continuing. We found this sample last week (md5: f393f34f268ddff34521d136e5555752). It’s a PDF file, apparently sent to an employee of the target company as an email attachment. When opened in Adobe Reader, it exploits a known Javascript vulnerability and drops a […]

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