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‘Reporters without Borders’ website misused in wateringhole attack

22

Jan

2013

As mentioned by me on Twitter, it seems that the entity or entities behind the watering hole attacks don’t care to be caught or detected, and it also seems that they don’t care if the Internet Explorer and Java vulnerabilities are patched. They act as opportunists and try to take advantage from the time frame […]

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A Dive into the Water Hole

19

Jan

2013

Today, let’s get our hands dirty by analyzing an “interesting” sample that I found in-the-wild earlier today. There are multiple interesting parts of this sample; the first one is that they don’t really hide/obfuscate their stuff. They left it in plain text, and exposed the contents of their server. (By accident, I think.)Let’s move to […]

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Symantec Protections for Red October

17

Jan

2013

An advanced cyber-espionage network targeting high-profile organizations and governments has recently been unveiled. The main attack method being used in this campaign is spear phishing.The spear phishing emails contain Word document or Excel spreadsheet attachments that exploit three known vulnerabilities in order to compromise computers. The vulnerabilities used are: Microsoft Excel ‘FEATHEADER’ Record Remote Code […]

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