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Targeted Attack: London 2012 Olympics

28

May

2012

We’ve come across a malicious Olympic themed PDF earlier this morning while data mining our back end for documents which drop executables (those are never a good thing, unsurprisingly). The PDF exploits CVE-2010-2883, which affects older versions of Adobe Reader and Acrobat. A typical PDF exploit will launch a clean decoy as part of its […]

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Doctor Web exposes 550 000 strong Mac botnet

05

Apr

2012

Doctor Web-the Russian anti-virus vendor-conducted a research to determine the scale of spreading of Trojan BackDoor.Flashback that infects computers running Mac OS X. Now BackDoor.Flashback botnet encompasses more than 550 000 infected machines, most of which are located in the United States and Canada. This once again refutes claims by some experts that there are […]

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OSX/Lamadai.A: The Mac Payload

28

Mar

2012

Earlier this month, researchers from AlienVault and Intego reported a new malware attack targeting Tibetan NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations). The attack consisted of luring the victim into visiting a malicious website, which then would drop a malicious payload on the target’s computer using Java vulnerability CVE-2011-3544 and execute it. The webserver would serve a platform-specific JAR […]

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