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Orbital Decay: the dark side of a popular file downloading tool

21

Aug

2013

Introduction Orbit Downloader by Innoshock is a popular file downloading add-on for web browsers, used not only to speed up the transfer of files over the Internet but also for its ability to download embedded videos from popular streaming video sites like YouTube. Figure 1 – Orbit Downloader Orbit Downloader has been around since at […]

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Avira users are protected against the MiniDuke Malware

28

Feb

2013

If you live on this planet, you must have definitely have heard of the new malware that is making use of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This malware is called MiniDuke, and it is slowly but surely becoming the nightmare of any company: it is polymorphic – there are thousands of variants in the […]

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Malicious PowerPoint File Contains Exploit, Drops Backdoor

04

Jun

2012

We discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives via an attached file attached to specific email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific versions of Flash Player (CVE-2011-0611) to drop a backdoor onto users’ systems. Users who open the malicious .PPT file triggers the shellcode […]

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