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I recently obtained a PoisonIvy sample which uses a legitimate application in an effort to stay under the radar.In this case, the PoisonIvy variant detected as BKDR_POISON.BTA (named as newdev.dll) took advantage of a technique known as a DLL preloading attack (aka binary planting) instead of exploiting previously known techniques. The malware was located in […]

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Earlier in February we blogged about RARSTONE, a Remote Access Tool (RAT) that we discovered having some similar characteristics to PlugX, an older and more well-known RAT. In April, the same malware family used the Boston Marathon bombing as part of its social engineering bait.Since then, we’ve been looking out for further attacks using RARSTONE. We’ve seen […]

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As a follow up to yesterday’s Kumar in the Mac post… have you received e-mail attachments such as this? Attachments:   •  Christmas_Card.app.zip  •  Content_for_Article.app.zip  •  Content_of_article_for_[NAME REMOVED].app.zip  •  Interview_Venue_and_Questions.zip  •  Lebenslauf_f?r_Praktitkum.zip If so, you may be the target of a spear phishing campaign designed to install a spyware on your Mac. Here’s a list of binaries signed by Apple Developer “Rajinder Kumar”. Detected as […]

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