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Tibet.C Malware Delivered by Poisoned Word Documents Installs Backdoors on Macs

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Mar

2012

Intego has been examining several samples of new Mac malware, Tibet.C, which uses Word documents to install a backdoor on Macs. The infected Word files look like real files when users double-click them – they display text just like regular Word files – but actually contain three parts, that are concatenated within the file, and […]

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Trojan.Taidoor takes aim at policy think tanks

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Mar

2012

The Taidoor family of Trojans are at the centre of a lengthy and sustained malware campaign that’s been active for several years. The approach used by the Taidoor attackers is the standard textbook email-based targeted attack method. When Taidoor attacks first began in 2008, the main targets were government agencies. Over time, the focus of […]

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Patch Tuesday December 2011

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Dec

2011

Microsoft finishes out this year of patching with a heavy release that’s all over place. While techs were notified of an anticipated 14 bulletins, 13 were released for the month of December. Headline grabbing events and code are addressed in one of them, and while fewer are labelled “Critical”, are they any less important? Many […]

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