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Rogue business

27

Jul

2011

FakeAV is never really far when you want to find it. Browsing a couple of dubious links was enough to trigger a ‘you are infected’ page. This one is pretending to be from Microsoft Security Essentials: The file that gets downloaded weighs a heavy (as far as malware goes) 4.58 Mb and comes from:03.85da0f71.com VirusTotal […]

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Exploits for CVE-2011-2110 focus on South Korea

21

Jun

2011

Last week, Adobe released an update (APSB11-18) for Adobe Flash Player, fixing a memory corruption vulnerability (CVE-2011-2110) that would allow attackers to take control of the targeted system. In the Advisory, Adobe mentioned reports of active exploitation. We have been tracking the use of this exploit through our signatures (originally as Exploit:SWF/ShellCode.A, and then later […]

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MSRT June Release, taking care of a few worm families

15

Jun

2011

In this month’s MSRT release, we added three new threat families to the detection capability. One of these three is Win32/Nuqel, which has been around for four years since its first variant was found. More than 60 variants of Win32/Nuqel have been identified in the wild. This worm spreads itself via network shares, removable drives […]

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