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Symantec Protects Against Files Misusing Adobe Code Signing Certificate

Sep

2012

On September 27, Adobe posted a blog stating that the company is investigating the inappropriate use of an Adobe code signing certificate for the Windows operating system. Symantec is aware of this issue and has added protection to detect any unauthorized file signed by the Adobe certificate in question as Trojan.Abe. We are currently aware […]

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Backdoor.Hikit: New Advanced Persistent Threat

Aug

2012

Thanks to Peter Coogan for his assistance with this research.Earlier this week Mandiant released a blog which talked about a new advanced persistent threat (APT) they found while investigating a potential compromise. Symantec detects the APT in question as Backdoor.Hikit, a Trojan that enables an attacker to gain control of compromised servers from a remote […]

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New Crisis/MORCUT Malware Mounts in Virtual Machines

Aug

2012

We were alerted to reports of a Crisis/MORCUT malware that supposedly spreads on VMware virtual machines. Our previous post about Crisis/MORCUT cites that it is a backdoor found to specifically target Mac OSX systems. This time around, the Crisis/MORCUT we have on our hands runs in Windows, and interestingly, mounts on virtual disks.Currently, arrival for […]

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