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Facebook friend added a new photo of you? Beware spammed-out malware attack

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Aug

2012

Computer users are being warned to be careful about opening unsolicited email attachments, after a malicious Trojan horse was spammed out posing as a Facebook notification that the recipient is featured in a newly uploaded photograph.The emails, which pretend to come from Facebook, look like the following (click here for a larger version of the […]

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New Java Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681)

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Aug

2012

Yesterday, FireEye documented a Java zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) in the wild that is thought to have been used initially in targeted attacks. Symantec is aware that attackers have been using this zero-day vulnerability for at least five days, since August 22. We have located two compromised websites serving up the malware: ok.XXXX.net/meeting/applet.jar 62.152.104.XXX/public/meeting/applet.jar One sample […]

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New Java 0-day used in small number of attacks

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Aug

2012

Over the weekend, information started appearing that there was a new Java zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) being used in a small number of attacks. We have analyzed samples from the attack and can confirm that Websense customers using products that have our Advanced Classification Engine (ACE) have been protected against this zero-day attack by real-time analytics […]

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