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Hide and seek with site injections

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Nov

2011

As we have seen many times before (e.g. Mal/Iframe-Gen, Mal/Iframe-W), compromised sites are frequently injected with large, heavily obfuscated blocks of JavaScript. The primary goal of such scripts is to make it hard for scanners to detect the payload (typically an iframe or script load). However, the side effect of large, ugly, obfuscated scripts is […]

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WebPulse Hits One Billion

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Oct

2011

As a kid, I loved to lay on the grass at night and stare at the stars. Even though I knew of some constellations, I would try to find new patterns among the billions of stars. New connections. New meaning. As WebPulse hit one billion requests in one day, it reminded me of those days […]

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Inside a Back Door Attack

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Jun

2011

A colleague of mine recently wrote about one of the June “Microsoft Tuesday” vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Because we're a bit like that, we decided to allow the exploit to compromise one of our honeypot computers so we could observe what happened. The exploit first came to our attention by way of email […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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