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Recent media reports about the OSX.Flashback malware have put the size of the botnet at over 600,000. The botnet is believed to have reached this size by using vulnerabilities such as the Oracle Java SE Remote Java Runtime Environment Denial Of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507, BID 51261) to spread the malware through exploit kits like Blackhole. […]

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AVG analysts spotted a script-injection hack on web site of the District of Columbia, USA. The malicious change to the Web page takes visitors to a variety of malicious downloads. The USA capital Washington is in the District of Columbia. The intruders put script on the page that lists the D.C. “Directory of Agencies and […]

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I’ve stumbled upon hundreds of links targeting Opera Mobile users, to trick them into installing a malware on the device. The links are in the form of: hxxp://geqe.net/opera_mini/1965/opera_mini.auto#phpsessid=85cfe7f19a08b6387d0441a9d949bb95 Each has a different phpsessid value. The domain was registered last month (02/12/2012) and does not seem to host any legitimate content. These pages redirect to another […]

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