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Red October Botnet Hides Calls to Control Server

03

Mar

2013

While working on the release of the latest version of the McAfee Network Security Platform, which offers advanced malware and botnet protection, we tested a sample of the malware Red October. With the help of our in-house advanced botnet analysis framework, we analyzed the network traffic generated by this sample and tracked its communications with the […]

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Latest Java Zero-Day Shares Connections with Bit9 Security Incident

01

Mar

2013

Symantec recently received information on a new Java zero-day, Oracle Java Runtime Environment CVE-2013-1493 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1493). The final payload in the attack consisted of a DLL file, detected by Symantec as Trojan.Naid, which connects to a command-and-control (C&C) server at 110.173.55.187. Interestingly, a Trojan.Naid sample was also signed by the compromised Bit9 certificate […]

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Analyzing the First ROP-Only, Sandbox-Escaping PDF Exploit

16

Feb

2013

The winter of 2013 seems to be “zero-day” season. Right after my colleague Haifei Li analyzed the powerful Flash zero day last week, Adobe sent a security alert for another zero-day attack targeting the latest (and earlier) versions of Adobe Reader. Unlike Internet Explorer zero-day exploits that we have seen in the past, this Reader […]

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