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News of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch’s Death Leads to Malware

12

May

2012

The demise of Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch (also known by his moniker MCA) have resonated among hip hop fans these past days. Sadly, we have seen a particular attack that targets specific recipients and used this news item as a social engineering lure. We have found an email sample that leverages Yauch’s death to entice […]

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Recent Threats Highlight Vulnerabilities CVE-2012-0779 and CVE-2012-0507

08

May

2012

Targeted Attack Uses Recent Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) Reports of a targeted attack surfaced recently. One such attack arrives as an email message that trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The malicious attachment, as expected, is a file that exploits CVE-2012-0779, found in several versions of Adobe Flash Player. Exploitation results to a […]

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March 2012 virus activity review: political spam keeps company with new threats to Mac OS X and Android

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Apr

2012

The first spring month in 2012 was unusually “hot” with the emergence of a whole series of new threats to Windows and other platforms. In particular, attackers came up with another way to spread Trojans for Mac OS X, and new malicious applications for Android were discovered. In early March, immediately following the Russian presidential […]

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