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In partnership with researchers at AlienVault Labs, we’ve analysed a series of targeted attacks against Uyghur Mac OS X users which took place during the past months. You can read their analysis here. For our research, please read below. We previously wrote about targeted attacks against Tibetan activists which used Mac OS X malware. In […]

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Recently, we came by an interesting targeted attack which was evading most antivirus products. This is a recent spearphish targeting various Tibetan and human rights activists. It demonstrates the level of effort put into infiltrating their groups with some unique characteristics, relative to the many other exploits targeting CVE-2012-0158. Here’s how such e-mails appear: Subject: […]

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When there are celebrity stories such as the death of Whitney Houston in the press, we expect to see BlackHat SEO attacks and other cybercriminal campaigns using these themes to distribute malware. However, a recent targeted attack against Tibetan activists caught our attention. The lure in this case was the story of Jeremy Lin, the […]

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