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Malware Uses Google Go Language

Sep

2012

Designed in 2007 and introduced in late 2009, the Go programming language developed by Google has been gaining momentum the past three years. It is now being used to develop malware. Recently seen in the wild, Trojan.Encriyoko is a new threat associated with components which are written in Go. The Trojan attempts to encrypt various […]

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Backdoor.Hikit: New Advanced Persistent Threat

Aug

2012

Thanks to Peter Coogan for his assistance with this research.Earlier this week Mandiant released a blog which talked about a new advanced persistent threat (APT) they found while investigating a potential compromise. Symantec detects the APT in question as Backdoor.Hikit, a Trojan that enables an attacker to gain control of compromised servers from a remote […]

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Targeted Attacks Exploit VBA Vulnerability in July MS Tuesday

Jul

2012

It’s deja vu. Last year around this time, I blogged about an exploit in the wild for a vulnerability included in the June 2011 MS Tuesday. This year, there is an active exploit in the wild for a vulnerability in July’s MS Tuesday.Since mid-March, attackers have been sending their targets customized emails with malformed attachments […]

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