We have seen malware that infects executables operate so that the malicious code runs first, and is then followed by the execution of host file. The malware XDocCrypt takes this a step further. Besides infecting portable executable files, it also infects Microsoft Word and Excel files. In an infected file, the malware body sits at […]
Recently, we wrote about Dalai Lama being a frequent Mac user. While this is true for his holiness, not all his supporters use Macs yet. You may wonder why is this relevant? Well, on 6th of July, his holiness will be 77 years old, a kind of round number. There is no surprise that “Dalai […]
Following on from the exploitation of the Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2012-1875 Same ID Property Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1875) detailed in our previous blog, Symantec has also observed continued exploitation of the Microsoft XML Core Services CVE-2012-1889 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1889) in the wild. This vulnerability involves one of the functions of the MSXML […]
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