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BKDR_RARSTONE: New RAT to Watch Out For

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Feb

2013

Last year, we reported about PlugX a breed of Remote Access Trojan (RAT) used in certain high-profile APT campaigns. We also noted some of its noteworthy techniques, which include its capability to hide its malicious codes by decrypting and loading a backdoor “executable file” directly into memory, without the need to drop the actual “executable […]

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APT1: Q&A on Attacks by the Comment Crew

20

Feb

2013

Today Mandiant released an detailed report dubbed “APT1” which focuses on a prolific cyber espionage campaign by the Comment Crew going back to at least 2006 and targeting a broad range of industries. The report cites the earliest known public reference about APT1 infrastructure as originating from Symantec. We have detected this threat as Backdoor.Wualess […]

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The CVE-2012-4792 and the “spear phishing” Rotary domains – part 1

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Jan

2013

Thanks to our ThreatSeeker® technology, it has been possible to detect a domain which we believe is involved in a spear phishing campaign against the users of a Rotary Club online service. The Rotary Club (also called Rotary International) is an organization that provides humanitarian services, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and promotes charity actions. Since the Rotary Club is a worldwide […]

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