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Microsoft Security Advisory 2718704

06

Jun

2012

On Sunday, Microsoft issued Security Advisory 2718704 which announces an update that revokes the trust of two Microsoft-issued intermediate Certificate Authority (CA) certificates for all currently supported versions of Windows. The certificates revoked are: Microsoft Enforced Licensing Intermediate PCA (2 certificates) Microsoft Enforced Licensing Registration Authority CA (SHA1) As outlined in Microsoft’s initial advisory, analysis […]

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Spreading the Flame: Skywiper Employs ‘Windows Update’

05

Jun

2012

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2718704, in which the company disclosed that it recently became aware of the Flamer/Skywiper threat, which uses certificates derived from the Microsoft Certificate Authority.The actual certificate in question was used to sign at least one of the attack components associated with the module in the Skywiper framework.This is how the […]

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OSX.Flashback.K – Suffering a Slashback – Infections Down to 270,000

11

Apr

2012

OSX.Flashback initially arrived on the scene in late 2011. It has come a long way from its humble beginnings as a social-engineering scam trying to pass off as a fake Flash update using digital certificates purporting to come from Apple. Flashback is now leveraging the latest Java vulnerability (BID 52161 – Oracle Java SE Remote […]

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