Posts Tagged ‘email attachments’

Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Found in Adobe Flash Player

Feb

2013

Adobe released an out-of-band update for two critical zero-day vulnerabilities just a few days in advance to its regular monthly patch cycle. The Buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2013-0633), which exists in Flash Player can lead to remote code execution or denial of service conditions when exploited. This vulnerability, which has been exploited in the wild, targets […]

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Malware spammed out widely posing as income tax email

Feb

2013

A malware campaign has been spammed out widely, seemingly taking advantage of an important date in the US tax system’s calendar.January 31st is the deadline for US employers to deliver the W-2 form to all of their workers, used to help calculate the total wages earned by an individual during the course of the year.So, […]

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Downloader Targets Down Under

Jan

2013

At the time of this blog post, and for the past five days, we have noticed an increase in spam containing malware that targets Australians. The attackers behind this malicious spam campaign appear to have no specific target in mind other than compromising a large base in Australia for reasons still unknown. Symantec Security Response […]

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