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Syrian Electronic Army tries (and fails) to hijack Facebook

06

Feb

2014

The Syrian Electronic Army , a group of hackers who have made a habit of hijacking high-profile domain names, managed to change the domain registration information for Facebook.com, but failed to redirect the domain to a different server.

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Blackhole 2.0 Exploited to Push Advertisements

20

Sep

2012

The popular Blackhole Exploit Kit has gained a lot of media attention recently when its author announced the imminent release of version 2.0, boasting a list of new interesting features. Recently we were very surprised when we found a website hosting what is supposed to be version 2.0 of the Blackhole Exploit Kit. Naturally, we […]

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Flamer: Urgent Suicide

06

Jun

2012

Late last week, some Flamer command-and-control (C&C) servers sent an updated command to several compromised computers. This command was designed to completely remove Flamer from the compromised computer. The Flamer attackers were still in control of at least a few C&C servers, which allowed them to communicate with a specific set of compromised computers. They […]

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