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OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$

May

2012

Further analysis of the OSX.Flashback botnet has shed more light on how profitable such a botnet can be. Previously, we wrote that OSX.Flashback was generating money for its authors by displaying advertisements on compromised computers. We now have a much clearer idea of how many ads the attackers were displaying and how much those ads […]

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Recent Threats Highlight Vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0779 and CVE-2012-0507

May

2012

Targeted Attack Uses Recent Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) Reports of a targeted attack surfaced recently. One such attack arrives as an email message that trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The malicious attachment, as expected, is a file that exploits CVE-2012-0779, found in several versions of Adobe Flash Player. Exploitation results to a […]

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OSX.FlashBack.K – An Overview and its Inner Workings

May

2012

In our previous blogs, [1], [2], [3], and [4], we described how a computer may become infected with OSX.Flashback.K and provided various statistics about infected computers. The purpose of this blog is to describe the inner workings of the threat. The ultimate goal of the OSX.Flashback.K Trojan is to generate money through ad-clicking. The threat […]

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OSX.Flashback – How to Turn Your Botnet into $$$

Recent Threats Highlight Vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0779 and CVE-2012-0507

OSX.FlashBack.K – An Overview and its Inner Workings

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