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64-Bit System Driver Infected and Signed After UAC Bypassed

15

Mar

2012

What was just a theory not so long ago is now being used in-the-wild by threats such as Backdoor.Hackersdoor and its newer variant Backdoor.Conpee. Back in December we analyzed tdpipe.sys, an infected 64-bit Windows 7 system driver. The infection consisted of an extra import added to the driver’s import table: The import named DiscPart from […]

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Email with Malicious HTML Attachments

31

Jan

2012

Malware is often embedded in email as compressed attachments (such as .zip, .rar, etc.). Recently, however, Symantec has noticed an increase in malicious email attacks with .htm (HTML) attachments. Here is what the message looks like in your inbox: The attack contains a .htm attachment and obfuscated JavaScript is embedded in the coding of the […]

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Apple iPad 2 and iPhone 4S finally fall to jailbreakers

22

Jan

2012

Apple’s most hacker-resistant hardware to date – the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4S, which are built around the Apple A5 chip – can now be jailbroken.Jailbreaking means removing the limitations wrapped around the operating system by Apple. In many countries – notably, since 2010, including the USA – this is perfectly legal. (Apple is […]

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