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Karmina wrote about a malware targeting multiple operating systems on Monday. The Mac OS X sample that time was a PowerPC binary. Yesterday, we received an Intel x86 version in our backend systems which appears to have been used in a similar type of attack. Nothing fancy. This time the sample uses the server 199.180.197.59, […]

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We observed a zero-day attack aimed at a Chinese high school webpage and leveraged the Microsoft XML Core Services vulnerability. This discovery came about just days after Microsoft released an advisory regarding the vulnerability. The perpetrators behind the attack compromised a high school entrance exam result page in Jiangsu, China, which is visited by about […]

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Symantec is observing limited targeted attacks using a new backdoor Trojan, Backdoor.Korplug. This backdoor surfaced earlier this year in March 2012. In these attacks, the targets are sent a crafted email containing a malicious attachment, typically in the form of a password protected zip file containing a malicious executable or in the form of an […]

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