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A technical analysis of Adobe Flash Player CVE-2012-0779 Vulnerability

May

2012

Recently, we’ve seen a few attacks in the wild targeting a patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability. The vulnerability related to this malware was addressed with a recent patch released by Adobe on May 4th. On the Windows platform, Flash Player 11.2.202.233 and earlier is vulnerable. If you’re using vulnerable version, you need to update your Flash Player […]

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Malware Targeting Windows and MAC OSX

Apr

2012

Malware is getting more and more sophisticated as the days goes by. Windows platform is the usual target for infection of malware authors but this time they add one more target platform, Mac OSX. Recently, another Tibetan-themed malware has been discovered which takes advantage of a patched Java Vulnerability (CVE-2011-3544). When a user unknowingly visits […]

Category General Written by GLOBAL SECURITY ADVISOR RESEARCH BLOG 0 Comments

Smartphone App Used for One-Click Fraud in Japan

Jan

2012

During the summer of 2011, one-click fraud targeting smartphones was discovered. One-click fraud has now become so common that doing a quick search for certain keywords on the Internet using a smartphone leads to a high possibility of coming across one of the scam sites. The typical attack simply attempts to trick users into registering […]

Category General Written by Symantec Security Response Blog 0 Comments

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