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Two year old PDF exploit returns to popularity

Oct

2012

For the last two weeks we have been noticing significant increase of PDF exploit attacks being distributed by email with an attached PDF document posing as a fake invoice.However, closer examination of the PDF file has shown that the exploit uses a two-year-old classified as CVE-2010-0188. Why would anyone use so old an exploit? Well […]

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Crisis for Mac

Jul

2012

Symantec – A new Macintosh malware is making the rounds.For the first half of 2012, we have seen an increase in the number of Mac-based threats: variant OSX.Flashback.K appeared, newly discovered OSX.Sabpab, and OSX.Macontrol with a new variant.As we begin the second half of 2012, we would like to introduce you to a new instance […]

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Obfuscating, bifurcating, escalating and mitigating on 64-bit

Jul

2012

With the growth in adoption of 64-bit architectures and associated operating systems, we’re seeing the usual malicious suspects following the trend. We have seen variants of several families, including Alureon, Koobface, Sirefef and Ursnif targeting this platform. These families adopt various techniques to prevent their detection and removal, one of which is obfuscation. Let’s take […]

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