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Weak Passwords Leave Users Vulnerable to PE_MUSTAN.A

19

Oct

2012

Seen in the wild last July 2012, PE_MUSTAN.A spreads around less secured networks and is known to target systems with weak passwords. Its roots can be traced from WORM_MORTO.SM that proliferated a year before. While this tactic of brute forcing its way around the network is not new anymore, PE_MUSTAN’s presence proves that supposed secured […]

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Breaking News: The malicious USA Presidential spam campaign has started…

10

Oct

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a spam campaign that tries to exploit recipients' interest in the current presidential campaign in the US. Specifically, we have detected thousands of emails with this kind of content: As noted recently, we are seeing an increasing number of spam campaigns with malicious links that lead to BlackHole exploit pages. This is also […]

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ZACCESS/SIREFEF Arrives with New Infection Technique

15

Aug

2012

During the last weeks of July, we received reports from customers that their services.exe files were being patched by an unknown malware. The patched services.exe, detected by Trend Micro as PTCH_ZACCESS (for 32-bit version) and PTCH64_ZACCESS (for 64-bit version), was verified to be a component of the SIREFEF/ZACCESS malware family. ZACCESS (also known as ZEROACCESS) […]

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