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Facebook Valentine’s Theme Leads to Malware

30

Jan

2012

It’s never too early to get ready for Valentine’s day, it seems, even when it comes to malicious attacks. Recently, I came across a scam in Facebook that leverages the upcoming occasion.The said attack begins with a post on affected users’ wall inviting other users to install a Valentine’s theme into their Facebook profile.Once users […]

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Malware Leveraging MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Found

26

Jan

2012

Earlier today, we encountered a malware that exploits a recently (and publicly) disclosed vulnerability, the MIDI Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0003).The said vulnerability is triggered when Windows Multimedia Library in Windows Media Player (WMP) fails to handle a specially crafted MIDI file, consequently allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.In the attack that we found, the infection […]

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Tax Season Opens, Tax Spam Follows

22

Jan

2012

The IRS officially kicked off the beginning of tax season in the US, and just right in time for it are the cybercriminals who are already taking advantage and using tax-related messages as a social engineering lure.We’ve recently spotted samples of spammed messages posing as a notice from Fidelity Investments, a well-known American financial institution.The […]

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