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Trojan.Taidoor: Balancing the Scales

Sep

2012

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the Oracle Java Runtime Environment Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) being used in a targeted attack campaign by the Nitro attackers. Recently, we have discovered another group exploiting this vulnerability in the wild: the Taidoor attackers.The Taidoor attackers began utilizing the vulnerability when the proof of concept (POC) […]

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The Shylock “LNK” Awakening

Aug

2012

A new development observed in the sophisticated financial banking Trojan.Shylock highlights the ongoing evolution of this threat. Shylock, a threat first observed by Trusteer in September 2011, was named after a character in the Shakespeare play the ‘Merchant of Venice’ due to quotes from the play being found in the original binary code. Symantec has […]

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New Java 0-day added to Blackhole Exploit Kit

Aug

2012

Earlier today we blogged about a new Java zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) being used in a small number of attacks. That's about to change as exploit code for the Java vulnerability has been added to the most prevalent exploit kit out there; Blackhole. Here's a snippet of the updated Blackhole code: The Pre.jar file (VirusTotal link) […]

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