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Nitro malware attack targets industrial companies, relies on social engineering

01

Nov

2011

Symantec published a paper today titled “The Nitro Attacks: Stealing Secrets from the Chemical Industry.” The paper details research they did into a recent series of targeted attacks on industrial companies. This “nitro” attack has an interesting blend of malware techniques that does show some ingenuity. It used a socially engineered email message with a […]

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The insecurity paradox

29

Aug

2011

The formula here attempts to explain a paradox in security analysis: If it is true that security is only as strong as its weakest link, why are not those who use insecure passwords, skip installing security patches, avoid updating or using antivirus software, and in general act insecure – not hacked and exploited continuously? Because they do not! […]

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Brazilians, banking Trojans and social engineering

22

Jul

2011

Maybe you don’t know this, but many guys here in the lab can tell you where a banking Trojan is from just taking a look at it for a few seconds. There are a number of different banking Trojan families, but it’s really easy -once you have analyzed thousands of them- to group them by […]

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