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Piecing the malware puzzle – Exploring a spike in exploit activity

21

Mar

2012

In this post, we explore a telemetry spike in Java/OpenConnection and CVE-2011-3544 exploit activity. While reviewing user feedback from the Microsoft Malware Protection Center recently, we noticed an unprecedented amount of feedback on one particular Java/OpenConnection variant — TrojanDownloader:Java/OpenConnection.PK. Such interest in this type of Java applet-based exploit is quite unusual, and prompted us to investigate […]

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Typosquatters exploit misspelled variations of YouTube.com domain name

09

Sep

2011

Here is a scenario that may sound familiar to you. You were in front of your computer one night and decided to watch some YouTube clips. So you opened your favourite browser and because you have clumsy fingers, instead of typing “YouTube.com” in the address bar you entered “YoutTube.com”. A second later, a Web page […]

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The Rise of Chinese Spam

30

Jun

2011

With our globalized economy, non-English email between international organizations has become the norm for business communication. However, at the same time, non-English spam is also becoming more and more of a problem for national and international enterprises. For the past several months, Symantec has noticed an increase for Chinese language spam, as shown in the […]

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