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The Day The Stuxnet Died

25

Jun

2012

Deep inside one of Stuxnet’s configuration blocks, a certain 8 bytes variable holds a number which, if read as a date, points to June 24th, 2012. This is actually the date when Stuxnet’s LNK replication sub-routines stop working and the worm stops infecting USB memory sticks. The specific variable which keeps the “time of death” […]

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W32.Flamer: Spreading Mechanism Tricks and Exploits

01

Jun

2012

Flamer has the ability to spread from one computer to the next. However, Flamer does not automatically spread, but instead waits for instructions from the attackers. Flamer can spread using the following methods: Through network shares using captured credentials, including Domain Administrator Through the Microsoft Windows Print Spooler Service Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2010-2729), previously […]

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Google blacklisted all the .cz.cc domains

16

Jun

2011

It seems that Google just blacklisted all the sites under the .cz.cc main domain (including the nic.cz.cc, start.cz.cc and all others). In their status page Google says: Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware? Over the past 90 days, cz.cc appeared to function as an intermediary for the […]

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