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Exploit kits available in the wild tend to follow a trend by exploiting vulnerabilities reported in various browser components which are commonly deployed. Recently, we have seen an increase in exploitation of a year old vulnerability reported in the JRE component of JAVA (CVE-2012-1723). Exploitation of this vulnerability in JRE allows a attacker to download malware […]

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[Some interesting research reported by Aleksandr Matrosov] Not long ago we received interesting information from an independent security researcher from Russia, Vladimir Kropotov. (We will be presenting our joint research with him at CARO 2012). We started to research this information and found an interesting way to distribute by FTP the payload for the most […]

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There’s nothing new in Brazilian cybercriminals exploiting social networks to distribute their malicious code. Orkut was first, followed by Twitter, and now it’s Facebook’s turn. Facebook is becoming increasingly popular in Brazil and we are witnessing more and more Brazilian bad guys switching their focus to it. We received some proof this weekend: a Brazilian […]

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