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Zeus Now Setting its Sights on Japanese Online Banking Customers

Feb

2013

As we have blogged in the past, Zeus (Trojan.Zbot) and other banking Trojans have been a headache to online banking customers all over the world for years. Certain countries such as Japan have in the past escaped attacks from banking Trojans, perhaps due to the language barrier or some other unknown reason. As the National […]

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Adobe Zero-day Used in LadyBoyle Attack

Feb

2013

Yesterday, Adobe released an out of cycle patch that fixed two zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2013-0633, CVE-2013-0634) for Adobe Flash Player 11.5.502.146 and earlier versions for both Windows and Macintosh. The patch was released because the zero-days were being actively exploited for attacks in the wild. Symantec recommends applying the patch immediately. Reports of the attack seen in […]

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Upswing in Ransomware Activity

Jan

2013

As we predicted toward the end of last year, we are once again seeing an upswing in ransomware activity in 2013. The ransomware extortion scam has been in existence now for a number of years but its popularity among cybercriminals has grown over the last two years and it continues to indiscriminately plague computer users […]

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