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On Monday, we released a Security Advisory on CVE-2012-4969, a vulnerability in Internet Explorer. A Fix it was released on Wednesday, and a cumulative update is also now available as of today, Friday morning. The vulnerability affects Internet Explorer versions 6 through 9. We have identified that this vulnerability is being used to infect computers by installing […]

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Yesterday, it’s reported that there is an IE 0day actively exploited in the wild. We did a quick analysis and have some interesting findings.The exploit contains 4 parts: exploit.html – first stage exploiting web page (initialize variables and load the .SWF file). Moh2010.swf – encrypted SWF using DoSWF, it contains shellcode and heap spray code.  […]

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Adobe has recommended that its Flash customers update to the latest version, which addresses a vulnerability (CVE 2012-1535) in the ActiveX component of the Flash player. This flaw could cause the application to crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system.Overview of the attack.We have also observed that the vulnerability […]

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