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MSRT March ’13 – Wecykler

Mar

2013

Wecykler is a family of worms, that shares some similarities with the Worm:Win32/Autorun family, in that it that takes advantage of removable drives attached to an infected system in order to propagate to other machines. They target users’ familiarity with the content of drives (files and directories) disguising as directories with existing and catchy names […]

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Ichitaro Vulnerability: Another Zero-Day Exploit in the Wild

Feb

2013

We have already seen a handful of zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild this year. These vulnerabilities have affected users globally leaving both individuals and organizations scrambling to protect their computers. While this does become tiring, this is not the time to rest or become complacent, especially for those using the Japanese word processor […]

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Don’t fall for Folstart

Nov

2012

We use thumb drives in different ways – usually to transfer files from one computer to another. When we create folders in thumb drives, we have a certain level of confidence that the folder isn’t malicious or doesn’t contain malware. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. For the month of November, we added the Folstart […]

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