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What was that Wiper thing?

29

Aug

2012

In April 2012, several stories were published about a mysterious malware attack shutting down computer systems at businesses throughout Iran.Several articles mentioned that a virus named Wiper was responsible. Yet, no samples were available from these attacks, causing many to doubt the accuracy of these reports.Following these incidents, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) asked Kaspersky […]

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The Madi Attacks: Series of Social Engineering Campaigns

18

Jul

2012

Symantec Security Response is aware of recent reports of Madi, a Trojan used in targeted campaigns and observed in the wild since December 2011.The following is an email example, discovered in the Madi campaign, which included a malicious PowerPoint attachment: Figure 1. Targeted email containing malicious PowerPoint In one example, opening the PowerPoint attachment displays a series […]

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Flame is Lame

12

Jun

2012

When the Flame malware was found two weeks ago, it was characterized as ‘Highly advanced’, ‘Supermalware’ and ‘The biggest malware in history’. These comments were immediately met with ridicule from experts who were quick to point out that there was nothing particularly new or interesting in Flame. In fact, the only unique thing in Flame […]

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