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Vulnerability in Microsoft XML Core Services Opens Door to Attackers

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Jun

2012

Microsoft has issued a security advisory that describes a vulnerability in its XML module. McAfee has also observed that the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability exists when the function “msxml3!_dispatchImpl::InvokeHelper” in Microsoft’s XML attempts to access an object in memory that has not been initialized, allowing attacker to execute arbitrary […]

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CVE-2012-1875 in the Wild (Part 2) – Internet Explorer Gets Stumped

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Jun

2012

The Microsoft patch Tuesday has been very interesting this month. Symantec has observed the exploitation of a couple of client-side vulnerabilities in the wild. This blog will concentrate on one of them, the Microsoft Internet Explorer CVE-2012-1875 Same ID Property Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-1875), which was actively exploited, even before MS Tuesday. We […]

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Fake FBI Ransomware analysis

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Jun

2012

In our previous blog post our AVG Web Threats Research group analyzed a Blackhole exploit kit serving the fake FBI Ransomware. Today we will have a look at the ransomware itself. Payload Here is a typical ransom malware payload once it’s active on infected computer: User’s desktop is locked with a full-screen information displayed Task […]

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