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Malicious PDFs On The Rise

29

Apr

2013

Throughout 2012, we saw a wide variety of APT campaigns leverage an exploit in Microsoft Word (CVE-2012-0158). This represented a shift, as previously CVE-2010-3333 was the most commonly used Word vulnerability. While we continue to see CVE-2012-0158 in heavy use, we have noticed increasing use of an exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2013-0640) that was made infamous […]

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Old Microsoft Office for Mac vulnerability actively used to install malware

02

Apr

2012

Not surprisingly, more than two and a half years after a critical patch has been delivered, we see customers that didn’t update. And if we can see them, then also the bad guys see them as well. Even worse, we see such an issue affecting MacOS users who usually are not used to think to […]

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

29

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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