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Guard Against Sandbox-Bypassing Adobe Reader Zero-Day

15

Nov

2012

News of the ‘unknown’ and underground zero-day in Adobe Reader is all over the place. Because of its supposed noteworthy features, including the capability to defeat Adobe’s sandbox feature, users are alarmed – and rightfully so. But the situation is not without hope.With this entry, my aim is to explain to our customers what this […]

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Watering Holes and Zero-Day Attacks

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Oct

2012

The term “Watering Hole” has become a popular way to describe targeted malware attacks in which the attackers compromise a legitimate website and insert a “drive-by” exploit in order to compromise the website’s visitors. Two recent papers by our friends at RSA and Symantec documented such attacks.Of course, such attacks are not new. This technique […]

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Targeted Attacks Make WinHelp Files Not So Helpful

16

Oct

2012

Last year Symantec reported on the use of the Windows Help File (.hlp) extension as an attack vector in targeted attacks. Symantec telemetry is now increasingly seeing this attack vector being used in targeted attacks against industry and government sectors. The nefarious WinHelp files being used in these targeted attacks are detected by Symantec as […]

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