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Dorifel is much bigger than expected and it?s still active and growing!

10

Aug

2012

Yesterday it was a dark day for many companies in Europe, but especially in the Netherlands. A piece of malware known as Worm.Win32.Dorifel infected over 3000 machines globally, and 90% of infected users were both from public and business sector organizations based in the Netherlands. We have seen government departments and hospitals being victims. The […]

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Naughty nurse Sakura Shiratori tries to infect defence firm with malware

08

Aug

2012

As we have mentioned before, we’ve seen a large number of files spammed out to various organisations, exploiting the CVE-2012-0158 vulnerability.Victims have not been limited to defence companies, but have also included government departments, charities and recruitment agencies.One of the latest attacks we have seen was sent to a defence contractor, using the subject line […]

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The Sykipot Campaign

18

Dec

2011

Last week reports surfaced about a “zero-day” exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2011-2462) that had been actively used in targeted attacks beginning in November. The malicious PDFs were emailed to targets along with text encouraging the target to open the malicious attachment. If opened, the malware known as BKDR_SYKIPOT.B installs onto the target system. The reported […]

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