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Shylock Likes Smart Cards

04

Dec

2012

Do you ever use your laptop’s Smart Card reader? You don’t? Yeah, we didn’t think so. (Half of you reading this probably didn’t even realize it had one to begin with.) Windows users: open your Control Panel, go to Administrative Tools, Services — and stop the Smart Card service. Adjust the startup type to prevent […]

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A technical analysis on CVE-2012-1535 Adobe Flash Player vulnerability: Part 1

29

Aug

2012

This post is part one of two. On August 14th, Adobe released a fix and an advisory for a vulnerability (CVE-2012-1535) in Adobe Flash Player. On Windows systems, Adobe Flash Player 11.3.300.270 and earlier versions are vulnerable. The advisory notes that this vulnerability has been used for targeted attacks. We analyzed a sample with a […]

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A ZeuS variant that asks: No sound? No way.

16

Aug

2012

We rely on a good amount of automation and virtualization in our battle against malware. Our opponents, malware authors, know this and they frequently employ new tactics to avoid being processed by our back end systems. One particularly prevalent threat is a “banking trojan” called ZeuS. In the past, we’ve written about a ZeuS variant […]

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Shylock Likes Smart Cards

A technical analysis on CVE-2012-1535 Adobe Flash Player vulnerability: Part 1

A ZeuS variant that asks: No sound? No way.

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