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A Targeted Attack Against The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

30

Nov

2012

Several days ago, a number of leaked documents from the “Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs” were published on “Par:AnoIA”, a new wikileaks-style site managed by the Anonymous collective.One of our users notified us of a suspicious document in the archive which is detected by our anti-malware products as Exploit.JS.Pdfka.ffw. He was also kind enough to […]

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Ransomware is Nasty Stuff

10

Nov

2012

A day or two ago, our friends at Symantec released a blog post about the growing success of "ransomware". (They also have a whitepaper here, and a nice gallery of screenshots of several variations here.) Briefly, ransomware is malware that either locks up a computer, or encrypts data files, and then offers to restore access […]

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Xtreme RAT Targets Israeli Government

30

Oct

2012

Trend Micro has obtained samples of malware implicated in a recent incident that forced the Israeli police department offline. According to media reports, the severity of the attack was enough for all police computers to be taken temporarily offline last Thursday.The attack began with a spammed message purporting to come from the head of the […]

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