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Honing in on Child Security

27

Oct

2011

The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) is an organization formed and is based in the UK that basically aims to protect children from “child sexual abuse images online”, in partnership with the netizens and the police. Today, October 26 marks the 2011 IWF Awareness Day, a day of taking part in reaching out to people via […]

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A Package-scam Malware Attack

26

Oct

2011

Yesterday, WebPulse blocked over 100 attempts by our users to download a malicious executable. It’s an attack type I don’t remember specifically writing about in the past, so it’s worth a quick post. The sample I grabbed was named USPS_Invoice_10242011.PDF.exe. From the file name, I rather suspected that I would find that this was another […]

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Malware Uses New DLL Loading Technique – MS11-071

13

Oct

2011

It has been a year since we have witnessed a DLL hijacking technique which loads a malicious DLL that affects hundreds of programs. The method involves dropping a collection of normal files together with the malicious DLL from within a directory. We recently analyzed the following archive sample. Only the file “deskpan.dll” was detected as […]

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