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Symantec Protects Against Files Misusing Adobe Code Signing Certificate

28

Sep

2012

On September 27, Adobe posted a blog stating that the company is investigating the inappropriate use of an Adobe code signing certificate for the Windows operating system. Symantec is aware of this issue and has added protection to detect any unauthorized file signed by the Adobe certificate in question as Trojan.Abe. We are currently aware […]

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Trojan.Zeroaccess.C Hidden in NTFS EA

15

Aug

2012

The latest variant of the Zeroaccess Trojan-Trojan.Zeroaccess.C-makes use of a novel technique to store its malicious content: it exploits a feature provided by the NT File System called Extended Attributes (EA).Even before Zeroaccess.C, malware authors have been looking for new ways to hide their malicious creations by making use of a specialized API provided by […]

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Hackers fail to extort $50,000 from Symantec, as pcAnywhere source code is published

08

Feb

2012

Symantec has confirmed that a file made available on the internet for anyone to download, does contain the source code for an old version of its pcAnywhere product. For a short while last month, before releasing a patch, Symantec advised customers to disable their pcAnywhere installations because of concern that hackers could exploit vulnerabilities. In […]

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