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Painting a Picture of W32.Flamer

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May

2012

The number of different components in W32.Flamer is difficult to grasp. The threat is a well designed platform including, among other things, a Web server, a database server, and secure shell communications. It includes a scripting interpreter which allows the attackers to easily deploy updated functionality through various scripts. These scripts are split up into […]

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A tool exploiting MS12-020 vulnerabilities

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Mar

2012

Since the public release of MS12-020 bulletin, there have been plenty of attempts to exploit the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) vulnerabilities. Last week, we received a related sample, which turned out to be a tool called ‘RDPKill by: Mark DePalma’ that was designed to kill targeted RDP service. The tool was written with Visual Basic […]

Category General Written by F-Secure Antivirus Research Weblog 0 Comments

Phony Delta, American Airlines itineraries lead to malware

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Nov

2011

A malware-email outbreak in the past 24 hours uses phony Delta airline itineraries to entice users to click on the embedded links. The social engineering of an attack such as this is very effective – particularly since the email looks very authentic: If you are planning a trip then you this will look all wrong […]

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