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Watering Holes and Zero-Day Attacks

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Oct

2012

The term “Watering Hole” has become a popular way to describe targeted malware attacks in which the attackers compromise a legitimate website and insert a “drive-by” exploit in order to compromise the website’s visitors. Two recent papers by our friends at RSA and Symantec documented such attacks.Of course, such attacks are not new. This technique […]

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The Details of the Rabasheeta Dropper

23

Oct

2012

Last week we reported on a particular piece of malware-detected as Backdoor.Rabasheeta-that is making a stir in the Japanese media. There are hundreds, if not thousands, of back door malware, but in the last week Japanese media and social networks have been full of discussions about this particular malware. Symantec has discovered the dropper.DropperFigure 1. […]

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Breaking News: The malicious USA Presidential spam campaign has started…

10

Oct

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected a spam campaign that tries to exploit recipients' interest in the current presidential campaign in the US. Specifically, we have detected thousands of emails with this kind of content: As noted recently, we are seeing an increasing number of spam campaigns with malicious links that lead to BlackHole exploit pages. This is also […]

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