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Nitro targeted attacks

02

Nov

2011

Recently, our friends over at Symantec released a report about an attack named Nitro. This targeted attack allowed unknown attackers to target several types of organizations, the latest known attacks occurring in the chemical sector, where 29 different targets were confirmed. The attacks follow a standard pattern for tools and techniques used in previous attempts. An […]

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Nitro malware attack targets industrial companies, relies on social engineering

01

Nov

2011

Symantec published a paper today titled “The Nitro Attacks: Stealing Secrets from the Chemical Industry.” The paper details research they did into a recent series of targeted attacks on industrial companies. This “nitro” attack has an interesting blend of malware techniques that does show some ingenuity. It used a socially engineered email message with a […]

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Stuxnet v2 or TR/Duqu

21

Oct

2011

The Stuxnet virus has gone to the next generation: “TR/Duqu”. Avira already detects the new malware since VDF 7.11.16.63, which was released on 2011-10-19. The new variant of Stuxnet consists of 3 main files: a driver file (at this time we can discern between 4 slightly different versions) an encrypted DLL an encrypted configuration file […]

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