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Symantec Protection for Trojan.FakeSafe

17

May

2013

Today, Trend Micro published a report about a targeted attack campaign they’re calling SafeNet (the campaign’s name is unrelated to the security company of the same name). The group behind this campaign is utilizing spear phishing emails with malicious attachments. These attachments are document files that exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word. Some of the documents […]

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Malicious PDFs On The Rise

29

Apr

2013

Throughout 2012, we saw a wide variety of APT campaigns leverage an exploit in Microsoft Word (CVE-2012-0158). This represented a shift, as previously CVE-2010-3333 was the most commonly used Word vulnerability. While we continue to see CVE-2012-0158 in heavy use, we have noticed increasing use of an exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2013-0640) that was made infamous […]

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A technical analysis on CVE-2012-1535 Adobe Flash Player vulnerability: Part 2

31

Aug

2012

Part 1 of this blog described and analyzed the CVE-2012-1535 vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Here, we describe the fixes and mitigations that can be employed for this and similar exploits. Fixes and mitigations To avoid being vulnerable, you need to update Adobe Flash Player to the latest release from here. Recent versions of Adobe Flash Player […]

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