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Shylock Not the Lone Threat Targeting Skype

22

Jan

2013

Shylock malware which spreads via Skype is not the only threat that users should be worried about. We found another worm that takes advantage of Skype to spread copies of itself.Reports of Shylock malware found on certain Skype messages was a hot topic last week. We looked into the related samples and based on our […]

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MSRT December ’12 – Phdet

12

Dec

2012

Phdet is the family which has been added to the December 2012 release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool. Phdet is a family of backdoor trojans that have the ability to perform distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. The bot can be found online, going by the formal name of “Black Energy”. The DDoS bot has […]

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Multiple Zero-Day POC Exploits Threaten Oracle MySQL Server

06

Dec

2012

In the last month of the year, MySQL has been flooded by a set of zero-day exploits. This set was revealed by Kingcope and he has published proof-of-concept (POCs) for all these vulnerabilities.The newly discovered set of 0-days affects MySQL in multiple ways, such as application crash/denial of service, privilege escalation, authentication bypass, remote root […]

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