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Backdoor.Hikit: New Advanced Persistent Threat

24

Aug

2012

Thanks to Peter Coogan for his assistance with this research.Earlier this week Mandiant released a blog which talked about a new advanced persistent threat (APT) they found while investigating a potential compromise. Symantec detects the APT in question as Backdoor.Hikit, a Trojan that enables an attacker to gain control of compromised servers from a remote […]

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Facebook Profile Viewer – Facebook Scam

13

Aug

2012

Scam Message:Facebook Profile ViewerScam Type: Rogue Application, Survey Scam, Profile ViewerTrending: August 2012Why it’s a Scam:Clicking the wall post link takes you to the following anding page:You are further directed to the traditional app installation screen:As if the above application permissions weren’t enough, once you proceed the application requests even more access to your Facebook account:Clicking […]

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The rise of a new Java vulnerability – CVE-2012-1723

02

Aug

2012

Last month, we saw a new Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-1723) being used by malware. This new Java vulnerability is a type-confusion, same as the notorious CVE-2012-0507 AtomicReferenceArray vulnerability. The vulnerability was resolved on June 12th by Oracle and a discussion on the vulnerability was made public on June 13th (though some security updates had appeared in […]

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