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CVE-2012-0158 – Now Being Used in More Tibetan-Themed Targeted Attack Campaigns

17

Apr

2012

Days after Microsoft released six bulletins, we now have just spotted a number of Trojanized RTF files circulating in-the-wild. The said files are exploiting CVE-2012-0158, which is included in MS12-027. That particular bulletin affects a number of Microsoft programs, particularly versions of MS Office, Visual FoxPro, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, as well as SQL Server. […]

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Tibetan-themed Campaign Pushes Hybridized Malware

14

Apr

2012

In our previous blog, we focused on the emergence of hybridized malware, in which malware arrives already infected by a file infector. In effect, there are two different malware families that will run on the infected system. In this scenario, attackers are able to maximize system compromise by deploying two different payloads in one execution, […]

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PDF malware adopts another obfuscation trick in attempt to avoid detection

05

Apr

2012

Security experts are playing a game of cat-and-mouse game with malware authors who are continually looking for ways to bypass detection by anti-malware products.As regular readers of Naked Security will know, one commonly-seen method of distributing malware is to embed an attack inside a malformed PDF. And, one way to hide code inside a malicious […]

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