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Malware Authors Using New Techniques to Evade Automated Threat Analysis Systems

Oct

2012

According to the Symantec Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR), 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of malware a month, or an average of one million new variants a day.It is impossible to manually analyze such a large number of sample files, so […]

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New Java Zero-Day Vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681)

Aug

2012

Yesterday, FireEye documented a Java zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2012-4681) in the wild that is thought to have been used initially in targeted attacks. Symantec is aware that attackers have been using this zero-day vulnerability for at least five days, since August 22. We have located two compromised websites serving up the malware: ok.XXXX.net/meeting/applet.jar 62.152.104.XXX/public/meeting/applet.jar One sample […]

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New spear of Black Hole exploit kit targets Java Vulnerability CVE-2012-1723

Jul

2012

In early July, an update to the Black Hole exploit kit targeted Java vulnerability CVE-2012-1723. The vulnerability could evade the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) sandbox and load additional Java classes in order to perform malicious actions. Details about the vulnerability are here. Although most of the sites used in the attack are newly registered, the Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network can detect an attack […]

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