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Malicious App Sends Bogus Facebook Warnings

Jun

2012

Today, I received a couple of requests from my friends on Facebook. Each included the phrase “WARNING FROM FACEBOOK TEAM.“ The requests looked suspicious because they came from friends, and the Facebook team never sends such warnings. A little quick analysis found that those requests were actually sent from a fake application called hxxp://apps.facebook.com/secureverifyssdc/. Here […]

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Spreading the Flame: Skywiper Employs ‘Windows Update’

Jun

2012

Microsoft has issued Security Advisory 2718704, in which the company disclosed that it recently became aware of the Flamer/Skywiper threat, which uses certificates derived from the Microsoft Certificate Authority.The actual certificate in question was used to sign at least one of the attack components associated with the module in the Skywiper framework.This is how the […]

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What the Skywiper Files Tell Us

Jun

2012

On May 28, my colleagues Peter Szor and Guilherme Venere posted a blog on Skywiper and listed various key filenames. Since then, I have searched these files, as well as some others that appear to be linked to this threat, in our collections. The following table summarizes these investigations.After I finished creating this table, I […]

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