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Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-conducted a research to determine the scale of spreading of Trojan BackDoor.Flashback that infects computers running Mac OS X. Now BackDoor.Flashback botnet encompasses more than 550 000 infected machines, most of which are located in the United States and Canada. This once again refutes claims by some experts that there are […]

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Even visiting security-oriented websites can sometimes be risky. If you’ve visited the security blog zerosecurity.org this month and you’re also a user of ESET’s security products, you might have encountered an anti-virus alert such as this one: The detection names may vary. Different variants of the following “generic families” were detected on the compromised websites on […]

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Microsoft’s January patch MS12-004 addressed a few vulnerabilities in Windows Media components. One particular issue, CVE-2012-0003, can be exploited via Windows Media Player ActiveX, as it leverages a heap overflow occurring in ‘midiOutPlayNextPolyEvent’ function within the Windows Multimedia Library, winmm.dll. The bad guys didn’t waste time and this vulnerability is now exploited in the wild […]

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