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Watering Holes and Zero-Day Attacks

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Oct

2012

The term “Watering Hole” has become a popular way to describe targeted malware attacks in which the attackers compromise a legitimate website and insert a “drive-by” exploit in order to compromise the website’s visitors. Two recent papers by our friends at RSA and Symantec documented such attacks.Of course, such attacks are not new. This technique […]

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Avast Virus Lab analysis of Dorkbot with Skype hijacker

11

Oct

2012

Earlier this week, a new variant of the Dorkbot/Ruskill malware attacked users of the Skype video calling service. This malware can affect a huge amount of sites and online services and can attack almost all known web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Flock and other programs such as MSN, wlcomm.exe etc.The avast! […]

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JavaScript Worm on Steroids

11

Oct

2012

From time to time during the course of our work, we may discover a novel piece of malware. Whether it is a new technique to infect files, infecting virtual machines, or targeting specific documents, the possibilities are limited only by a malware author’s imagination. Such is the case with JS.Proslikefan. While malware can be created using […]

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