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A Dive into the Water Hole

19

Jan

2013

Today, let’s get our hands dirty by analyzing an “interesting” sample that I found in-the-wild earlier today. There are multiple interesting parts of this sample; the first one is that they don’t really hide/obfuscate their stuff. They left it in plain text, and exposed the contents of their server. (By accident, I think.)Let’s move to […]

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New Trojan fakes search results

15

Jan

2013

Russian anti-virus company Doctor Web is warning users about a malicious program dubbed BackDoor.Finder which fakes search result pages and redirects browsers to bogus websites. When launched in an infected system, BackDoor.Finder creates a copy of itself in the current user’s % APPDATA% folder and makes corresponding changes in the branch of the Windows registry […]

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Java & IE Patches + Prompts

14

Jan

2013

Microsoft is releasing an out of cycle security update for users of Internet Explorer 6-8.According to Microsoft: “While we have still seen only a limited number of customers affected by the issue, the potential exists that more customers could be affected in the future.”Potential indeed – there’s now evidence of this IE vulnerability being incorporated […]

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