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More software-related searches lead to malware

01
Dec
2011

Spammers have done a very good job a hijacking web searches related to buying software online. More than 90% of search results for “buy Microsoft Windows” and similar searches, lead to fake stores on major search engines. Not much has been done by the search engines to clean up these search results. Since the beginning […]

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TrueType but not Truly Safe: The New Zero-Day Event

08
Nov
2011

A new vulnerability in Windows, CVE -2011-3402, has been recently identified and is already exploited in the wild. For now, only a handful of targeted attacks have been found. The vulnerability exists in Windows TrueType Font Parsing Engine and affects most Windows versions, including Windows 7. An attack involves a file which has a maliciously […]

Category Security Written by M86 Security Labs Blog 0 Comments

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How fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files can lead to efficient malware detection

13
Oct
2011

At last week’s Virus Bulletin 2011 conference Paul Baccas and Stephen Edwards from SophosLabs presented their research paper “Fast fingerprinting of OLE2 files: Heuristics for detection of exploited OLE2 files based on specification non-conformance”. They may win the prize for the longest title, but what does it mean? OLE2 is a container format synonymous with […]

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