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CVE-2012-1535 Exploit Leads to Backdoor

17

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of an exploit targeting the CVE-2012-1535, a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to drop a backdoor into the vulnerable system. The said exploit masquerades as a .DOC file (detected as TROJ_MDROP.EVL) that possibly arrives as an attachment to email messages. Users who are tricked into opening the said file actually […]

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Economies of scale: A perspective on cross-platform vulnerabilities

31

Jul

2012

A year ago, we published a blog post titled ‘Backdoor Olyx – is it malware on a mission for Mac?‘. It explored the intriguing questions that lay behind this backdoor’s discovery, delivery and targets. We provided our observations and analysis, and suggested that this threat was used in a targeted attack against unknown victims. However, […]

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Rovnix bootkit framework updated

14

Jul

2012

We have been tracking the activity of the Rovnix bootkit family since April 2011. Rovnix was the first bookit family to use VBR (Volume Boot Record) infection (NTFS bootstrap code) for loading unsigned kernel-mode drivers on x64 (64 bit) platforms. The reason for exploring further is the desire of the Rovnix developers to bypass antivirus […]

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