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Economies of scale: A perspective on cross-platform vulnerabilities

31

Jul

2012

A year ago, we published a blog post titled ‘Backdoor Olyx – is it malware on a mission for Mac?‘. It explored the intriguing questions that lay behind this backdoor’s discovery, delivery and targets. We provided our observations and analysis, and suggested that this threat was used in a targeted attack against unknown victims. However, […]

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Malware spread as Facebook photo tag notification

17

Jul

2012

Be wary of emails claiming to be from Facebook, and saying that you have been tagged in a photograph.Because it might be that you’re the next potential victim of a malware attack.SophosLabs has intercepted a spammed-out email campaign, designed to infect recipients’ computers with malware.Here is an example of what a typical email can look […]

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New spear of Black Hole exploit kit targets Java Vulnerability CVE-2012-1723

15

Jul

2012

In early July, an update to the Black Hole exploit kit targeted Java vulnerability CVE-2012-1723. The vulnerability could evade the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) sandbox and load additional Java classes in order to perform malicious actions. Details about the vulnerability are here. Although most of the sites used in the attack are newly registered, the Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network can detect an attack […]

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