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The Details of the Rabasheeta Dropper

Oct

2012

Last week we reported on a particular piece of malware-detected as Backdoor.Rabasheeta-that is making a stir in the Japanese media. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of back door malware, but in the last week Japanese media and social networks have been full of discussions about this particular malware. Symantec has discovered the dropper.DropperFigure 1. […]

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Malware Uses Google Go Language

Sep

2012

Designed in 2007 and introduced in late 2009, the Go programming language developed by Google has been gaining momentum the past three years. It is now being used to develop malware. Recently seen in the wild, Trojan.Encriyoko is a new threat associated with components which are written in Go. The Trojan attempts to encrypt various […]

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CVE-2012-1535 Exploit Leads to Backdoor

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of an exploit targeting the CVE-2012-1535, a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to drop a backdoor into the vulnerable system. The said exploit masquerades as a .DOC file (detected as TROJ_MDROP.EVL) that possibly arrives as an attachment to email messages. Users who are tricked into opening the said file actually […]

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