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Winnti-Stolen Digital Certificates Re-Used in Current Watering Hole Attacks on Tibetan and Uyghur Groups

Apr

2013

A new-ish Flash exploit has been on the loose for attacks around the web. This time, the attackers have compromised a caregiver site providing support for Tibetan refugee children and are spreading backdoors signed with Winnti stolen certificates delivered with Flash exploits – the compromised web site is the NGO “Tibetan Homes Foundation”. Previously, FireEye […]

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CVE-2012-1535 Exploit Leads to Backdoor

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of an exploit targeting the CVE-2012-1535, a vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player to drop a backdoor into the vulnerable system. The said exploit masquerades as a .DOC file (detected as TROJ_MDROP.EVL) that possibly arrives as an attachment to email messages. Users who are tricked into opening the said file actually […]

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Danger! Unpatched Microsoft security vulnerability being actively exploited

Jun

2012

An unpatched critical security vulnerability in Microsoft’s software is being actively exploited by cybercriminals. The exploit allows what’s known as a drive-by install: you can become infected simply by visiting a website with Internet Explorer.Alongside last week’s regular Patch Tuesday announcement (including a remote code execution vulnerability that is being exploited by attackers in the […]

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Winnti-Stolen Digital Certificates Re-Used in Current Watering Hole Attacks on Tibetan and Uyghur Groups

CVE-2012-1535 Exploit Leads to Backdoor

Danger! Unpatched Microsoft security vulnerability being actively exploited

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