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Targeted Attacks Using Confusion (CVE-2012-0779)

05

May

2012

Adobe today issued a security bulletin for a vulnerability in Flash Player, which is currently being used in limited targeted attacks. The targeted attacks leveraging the Adobe Flash Player CVE-2012-0779 Object Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) have been in the wild for over a week. The vector of infection, as in most targeted […]

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North Korea Rocket Launch Used As Backdoor Lure

26

Apr

2012

Using global political news as a social engineering hook is a popular cybercrime tool, particularly used to lure users into their malicious schemes. We have recently found a malicious file leveraging a noteworthy incident, one that leads to systems being infected with a backdoor. During the second of week of April, the most talked about […]

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Dropbox Abused by Spammers

08

Mar

2012

Recently we noticed spammers abusing Dropbox, a popular cloud-based, file-hosting and synchronization tool, to spread spam. Dropbox accounts have a public folder where files can be placed and made publicly available. This function is useful to spammers, as it effectively turns Dropbox into a free hosting site. Spammers have abused URL shortening and free hosting […]

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