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Herald Media News Portal Compromised, Used to Serve Exploits

18

Jun

2012

Barracuda Labs – Beginning in early May 2012 and persisting over a period of ten days, Herald Media’s primary news portal (heraldm.com) was compromised and used to serve drive-by download exploits. Based in Seoul, South Korea, Herald Media’s publications include The Korea Herald and The Business Herald.Starting on May 9, a javascript resource used throughout […]

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LinkScanner detection 1494 is correct

08

Jun

2012

It is not uncommon for the AVG Web Threats Research Group to receive comments from webmasters of compromised sites that are serving malicious content to their visitors, questioning whether the AVG detections on their sites are correct. They almost invariably are correct. The Web Threats team maintains the LinkScanner component and the team is justifiably […]

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Stolen code signing certificates are your worst nightmare

07

Jun

2012

Flamer used spoofed code signing certificates from Microsoft. This was done to make it appear that the malicious content was actually software delivered by Microsoft. You have likely seen the use of code signing certificates when Windows pops up a User Account Control (UAC) warning to ask for your permission to make a change to […]

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