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Malicious PowerPoint File Contains Exploit, Drops Backdoor

04
Jun
2012

We discovered a malicious MS PowerPoint document that arrives via an attached file attached to specific email messages. The file contains an embedded Flash file, which exploits a software bug found in specific versions of Flash Player (CVE-2011-0611) to drop a backdoor onto users’ systems. Users who open the malicious .PPT file triggers the shellcode […]

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New banking Trojan horses and other events in January 2012

01
Feb
2012

The first month of this leap year did not offer any major surprises in terms of information security. However, Doctor Web’s anti-virus laboratory received samples of several new banking Trojan horses that turned out to be rather unusual. In addition, a new technique for distributing malicious links was discovered. Virus threats in January The file […]

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