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Security flaw left Parliament website open to hackers

04

Mar

2014

The UK Parliament website until recently contained security flaws that left it open to exploitation by hackers and other cyber criminals.

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Modified Ichitaro .DLL File Leads to Backdoor

28

Feb

2013

The popular Japanese word processor software Ichitaro is no stranger to threats, particularly exploits taking advantage of the software’s vulnerabilities. Since 2007, we have reported the malware targeting Ichitaro’s security flaws.This time, however, we uncovered an attack that employs an old trick that even Microsoft Office was previously vulnerable to (CVE-2011-1980). Typically, when an application […]

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Spam campaign uses Blackhole exploit kit to install SpyEye

15

Dec

2011

This article was written in collaboration with my colleague Jean-Ian Boutin. The Wigon botnet (also known as Cutwail) is being used in a massive spam campaign. A multitude of ruses are used to get the user to click on a link: fake LinkedIn or Facebook notifications, free Windows licenses, fake deliveries etc. The links are […]

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