Posts Tagged ‘email attachments’

Taidoor Update: Taidoor Gang Tags Its Victims

Dec

2012

We’ve been seeing an increase in Taidoor downloaders in the wild, but instead of embedding the backdoor in email attachments, the current trend in Taidoor-related attacks is to include an attachment with a Taidoor-downloading Trojan.Based on the sample set we gathered, it appears this type of technique has only been used this year. For the […]

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Facebook friend added a new photo of you? Beware spammed-out malware attack

Aug

2012

Computer users are being warned to be careful about opening unsolicited email attachments, after a malicious Trojan horse was spammed out posing as a Facebook notification that the recipient is featured in a newly uploaded photograph.The emails, which pretend to come from Facebook, look like the following (click here for a larger version of the […]

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Adobe Flash Update Counters CVE 2012-1535

Aug

2012

Adobe has recommended that its Flash customers update to the latest version, which addresses a vulnerability (CVE 2012-1535) in the ActiveX component of the Flash player. This flaw could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.Overview of the attack.We have also observed that the vulnerability […]

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