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Hot on the trail of Duqu with Microsoft’s MAPP

11

Nov

2011

The Duqu malware has raised the specter of Stuxnet II, with some in the security community claiming that this new Trojan is a reverse-engineered copy of Stuxnet – the infamous malware that may have sold more newspapers than it damaged nuclear centrifuges. Unlike Stuxnet, Duqu is designed to steal data from the targeted organization, not […]

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CVE-2011-3402 Vulnerability in TrueType Font Parsing

08

Nov

2011

When Duqu, which most believed to be written by the same group that wrote Stuxnet, was originally uncovered, the infection vector was still unknown; how did the machines get compromised in the first place? That changed when the Hungarian research lab, CrySys, announced that it had found the dropper which was a Word file that […]

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DDoS Watch: Keeping an Eye on Aldi Bot

06

Oct

2011

Background The intention of this entry is to profile some elements of the Aldi Bot in order to provide value for the security operations community and malware research community. Aldi Bot is a newer inexpensive DDoS bot that is growing in popularity. Recent data (September 30 2011) suggests that there are at least 50 distinct […]

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