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Targeted Attack Campaign Hides Behind SSL Communication

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Apr

2013

Using encrypted communication like Secure Sockets Layers (SSL) along with the clever use of recent news item as a social engineering lure is the perfect combination to penetrate and remain in a targeted entity’s infrastructure. It didn’t take long for targeted attacks to use last week’s Boston Marathon bombing as a bait to trick predetermined […]

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Fake Page With “90 Million Likes” Leads to Fake Adobe Flash

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Apr

2013

Besides the fake Facebook Profile Viewer ruse, we found another Facebook scam that lures users into downloading a fake Adobe Flash Player plugin. We noticed countless feeds pointing to a Facebook page with more than 90 million “likes”. For some, this huge number of Facebook likes may be enough for them to check the page […]

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How to protect your computer against dangerous Java Applets

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Apr

2013

Java exploits represent a common attack vector used by the bad guys to infiltrate vulnerable computers via the web browser. We wrote about the rise of Java exploits as early as 2010, and we haven’t seen that trend decline. In fact, in the first quarter of 2013 alone, we’ve seen three Java remote code execution […]

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