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McAfee – A new Java zero-day vulnerability is spreading malicious files to infect unprotected users. The threat is dangerous: Just browsing a malicious page or clicking a malicious link in spam is enough to cause an infection when combined with a vulnerable Java version.Because most browsers enable Java by default, this vulnerability can be used […]

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I’ve already mentioned the Win32/Spy.Ranbyus family in my previous blog post about smartcard monitoring in modern banking malware (Smartcard vulnerabilities in modern banking malware). It displays really interesting functionality because it shows how it is possible to bypass payment transaction signing/authentication with smartcard devices. We have been tracking the latest modification to this malware family […]

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In the past few months, we encountered two serious Java vulnerabilities; one is CVE-2012-4681, the other is CVE-2012-5076. Both of them have some common characteristics, the first being that both of them are Java applet programs. The second is that they use a Java reflection mechanism to break Java applet security restrictions and load malicious […]

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