As mentioned in our previous post, the actors behind the targeted attack campaigns we’re monitoring updated, and still are updating, the tools of their trade to further their agenda and achieve exploitation. Using a fairly new vulnerability such as CVE-2012-0158, patched barely 2 weeks ago, may allow these attackers the window of opportunity to effectively […]
Recent media reports about the OSX.Flashback malware have put the size of the botnet at over 600,000. The botnet is believed to have reached this size by using vulnerabilities such as the Oracle Java SE Remote Java Runtime Environment Denial Of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507, BID 51261) to spread the malware through exploit kits like Blackhole. […]
The internet is full of infected hosts. Let’s just make a conservative guesstimate that there are more than 40 million infected victim hosts and malware serving “hosts” connected to the internet at any one time, including both traditional computing devices, network devices and smartphones. That’s a lot of resources churning out cybercrime, viruses, worms, exploits, […]
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