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Beware the phony Classmates.com email

13

Jun

2012

Classmates.com has become the latest in a series of well-known brands to be abused by a particular gang of malware distributors. The similarities to other outbreaks include: Linking to multiple compromised sites which then redirect to the malware hosting sites Favoring WordPress sites (that can be exploited) Hosting the malware on various .ru domains Showing […]

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Malicious PowerPoint File Contains Exploit, Drops Backdoor

04

Jun

2012

We discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives via an attached file attached to specific email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific versions of Flash Player (CVE-2011-0611) to drop a backdoor onto users’ systems. Users who open the malicious .PPT file triggers the shellcode […]

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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 […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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