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From Alarming to Familiar: Different Social Engineering Techniques

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Feb

2013

In the course of our threat research, we’ve encountered different types of social engineering lures that aim to trigger different emotions such as fear and happiness. These lures are often effective, as we’ve seen happen in several incidents in the past. However, they are also easily recognizable as they often use a common theme, be […]

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Malicious Mandiant Report in Circulation

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Feb

2013

The report, APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units, published by Mandiant earlier this week has drawn worldwide attention by both the security world and the general public. This interest is due to the conclusion the report has drawn regarding the origin of targeted attacks, using advanced persistent threats (APT), performed by a certain […]

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New Adobe PDF Zero-day Unleashes Trojan.Swaylib

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Feb

2013

In a previous blog, Symantec reported on a new Adobe zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2013-0640, CVE-2013-0641) affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat XI (11.0.1) and earlier versions, that was being actively exploited in the wild. Adobe has yet to release a patch for this zero-day, but in an advisory they have provided a means of mitigation against the […]

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