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Kernel Vulnerabilities and Zero Days: a Duqu Update

02

Nov

2011

We discussed much of the unfolding Duqu attack in our previous post. Some new light has recently illuminated some missing pieces to this interesting attack. Researchers at CrySys Labs in Hungary have disclosed information about a Word document that is purported to be the installer file for the Duqu attacks. The document loads a kernel […]

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Bing, Yahoo! Search adverts serve up malware

17

Sep

2011

Overnight we saw a number of adverts being displayed in Bing that were directing end-users to malicious content. These adverts were promoting all manner of downloads including Firefox, Skype and uTorrent. Some of the search terms used: “FireFox Download” “Download Skype” “Download Adobe Player” As you can see, they’re not particularly complicated or unusual searches […]

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Of Spam and Speeding

19

Aug

2011

Our engineers over at the AV Labs have spotted recently a deluge of spam about a “traffic ticket” that purports to come from a state department in New York. The said spam has a compressed file attachment that, once extracted, contains a file that bears the icon of a normal Adobe .PDF file. Mimicing file […]

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