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Three Lessons from the South Korea MBR Wiper Attacks

02

Apr

2013

Last week, we posted some detailed information about the actions that the March 20, 2013 MBR wiper attacks took against systems in South Korea.Today, I’d like to take that and some additional information that has come out about the incident and draw some conclusions about what lessons this attack teaches us.When we look at the […]

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“Browser Crashers” Hit Japanese Users

26

Mar

2013

We’ve spotted an uptick in a particular type of threat hitting Twitter uses in Japan. We call this threat the “browser crasher” after what it does: it causes the browser to “hang/crash”. To do this, the user has to be lured to visit a particular site with the JavaScript code. So long as the browser […]

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CIA “DELETED” Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez?

09

Mar

2013

This is the topic that cybercriminals are speculating about and using as a hook to infect victims. The campaign stems from malicious emails that are sent in bulk to victims: The links mentioned in the email re-direct users to a legitimate Russian website called ?Znakvoprosa? (translation: ?interrogation sign?) that has been hacked in several occasions […]

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