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Nepalese government websites compromised to serve Zegost RAT

08

Aug

2012

The Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network has detected that two Nepalese government websites, the National Information Technology Center (NITC) and the Office of the Prime Minister and Council Minister (nitc.gov.np and opmcm.gov.np respectively), have been compromised and injected with malicious code that tries to exploit the Java vulnerability CVE-2012-0507. The aim of this injection is to install, through successfully exploiting that Java weakness, […]

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Fake AT&T email Installs Malware

02

Aug

2012

Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network detected a massive phishing campaign targeting AT&T customers. More than 200,000 fake emails are masquerading as billing information from the giant American communication services provider. Each message claims that there is a bill of a few hundreds US dollars. In itself, the amount of money could be big enough to raise suspicion in most of us. Also, it is easy […]

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New spear of Black Hole exploit kit targets Java Vulnerability CVE-2012-1723

15

Jul

2012

In early July, an update to the Black Hole exploit kit targeted Java vulnerability CVE-2012-1723. The vulnerability could evade the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) sandbox and load additional Java classes in order to perform malicious actions. Details about the vulnerability are here. Although most of the sites used in the attack are newly registered, the Websense® ThreatSeeker® Network can detect an attack […]

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