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Jul
2012

“APT” is a term created by the U.S. Air Force to describe Chinese threat actors. The most common case where term APT is used is a targeted attack. Most of which are done via spoofed email messages. Most of which contain booby-trapped document attachments. Most of which show some actual content to the victim in […]

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We discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives via an attached file attached to specific email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific versions of Flash Player (CVE-2011-0611) to drop a backdoor onto users’ systems. Users who open the malicious .PPT file triggers the shellcode […]

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