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Malware evolving to defeat anti-DDoS services like CloudFlare?

14

Feb

2013

Could distributed denial of service (DDoS) malware be evolving to defeat anti-DDoS security measures like CloudFlare? We do not usually see a lot of innovative denial-of-service malware in our day-to-day work. What we do see usually boils down to the basic flooding techniques: TCP Syn, UDP and ping floods, and sometimes HTTP-oriented floods. Of course, […]

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The CVE-2012-4792 and the “spear phishing” Rotary domains – part 2

05

Feb

2013

In the previous part of our report, we analyzed the malicious content detected in the domain "rotary-eclubtw.com". We detected the exploitation code for the vulnerability CVE-2012-4792 and analyzed the Flash file which was used to contain the heap spray code and the shell code. In this part we are going to show some of the details that […]

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Shylock Likes Smart Cards

04

Dec

2012

Do you ever use your laptop’s Smart Card reader? You don’t? Yeah, we didn’t think so. (Half of you reading this probably didn’t even realize it had one to begin with.) Windows users: open your Control Panel, go to Administrative Tools, Services — and stop the Smart Card service. Adjust the startup type to prevent […]

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