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Four Years of DarkSeoul Cyberattacks Against South Korea Continue on Anniversary of Korean War

27

Jun

2013

Yesterday, June 25, the Korean peninsula observed a series of cyberattacks coinciding with the 63rd anniversary of the start of the Korean War. While multiple attacks were conducted by multiple perpetrators, one of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks observed yesterday against South Korean government websites can be directly linked to the DarkSeoul gang and Trojan.Castov.We […]

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Bitcoins Still a Hot Security Topic

05

Jun

2013

Interest in Bitcoin-the decentralized digital currency-is definitely growing. But as with anything established, it also sparks the interest of scammers. We have seen a few Trojans stealing Bitcoin wallets over the last few years. Also, Trojans installing Bitcoin miners are not that exotic anymore. A case from last week shows how far interest has grown […]

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Microsoft Updates May 2013 – Slew of Internet Explorer Critical Vulnerabilities, Kernel EoP, and Others

15

May

2013

Microsoft released a long list of updates for Microsoft software today. The most interesting appear to be those patching Internet Explorer and the kernel software vulnerabilities. In all, ten critical “use-after-free” vulnerabilities are patched in IE along with one important Information Disclosure vulnerability, and three elevation of privilege vulnerabilities are being patched as well. Almost […]

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Four Years of DarkSeoul Cyberattacks Against South Korea Continue on Anniversary of Korean War

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