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G20 Summit Used as Bait to Deliver Backdoor.Darkmoon

04

Sep

2013

Ahead of this week's G20 summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, attackers are leveraging the meeting's visibility in targeted attacks. One particular campaign we have identified is targeting multiple groups. They include financial institutions, financial services companies, government organizations, and organizations involved in economic development. Figure 1. Email purporting to be from G20 Representative […]

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Symantec Protections for TravNet

05

Jun

2013

Today, Kaspersky published a paper titled “The NeTTraveler (aka ‘TravNeT’).” The paper provides analysis on a targeted attack campaign that is targeting various organizations worldwide, such as governments, industries, and non-government organizations. This research is related to the McAfee blog “Travnet Trojan Could Be Part of APT Campaign” released earlier in March about a campaign […]

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Christmas-Themed Malware Starts to Jingle All the Way

07

Dec

2012

Once again cybercriminals take advantage of the Holidays in what seem like a targeted attack against businesses and government organizations. We spotted samples that bore the filename, PROPOSED CHRISTMAS PARTY 2012.doc. Trend Micro detects this as TROJ_ARTIEF.RTN. When executed, this malware drops a file (temp.doc) that acts as decoy to trick recipients into thinking this […]

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