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Mac Spyware: OSX/KitM (Kumar in the Mac)

May

2013

There’s another case of Backdoor:OSX/KitM.A in the wild. A German-based investigator reached out to us yesterday regarding OSX/KitM. (We wrote about it last week.) KitM stands for “Kumar in the Mac”, which is our designation for spyware — related to OSX/Filesteal a.k.a. OSX/HackBack — that is signed using an Apple Developer ID in the name […]

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Symantec Protection for Trojan.FakeSafe

May

2013

Today, Trend Micro published a report about a targeted attack campaign they’re calling SafeNet (the campaign’s name is unrelated to the security company of the same name). The group behind this campaign is utilizing spear phishing emails with malicious attachments. These attachments are document files that exploit vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word. Some of the documents […]

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A Phone Call, a Phish, and a Remote Access Trojan

May

2013

In April 2013, Symantec was alerted to a series of sophisticated social-engineering attacks targeting a limited set of organizations in Europe. The most distinguishing feature of these attacks is that the victim will receive a phone call from the attacker who impersonates an employee or business associate of the organization. The caller spoke in French […]

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