New Exploit Takes on MS PowerPoint

A new 0-day malware leveraging on a vulnerability found in Microsoft PowerPointis making rounds. Distributed as attachment to spam messages, specially crafted PowerPoint files are used for exploitation, which would grant cybercriminals access into the affected user’s system. Here are screenshots of the said PowerPoint files:

Figure 1. Spammed malicious PPT file

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More DOWNAD/Conficker Questions After April 1st

All around the world, April 1st has already passed. The DOWNAD/Conficker April 1st hype has kept most, if not all, of us in the security industry and in the Conficker Working Group busy in the past few weeks. The day may have ended quietly, but follow-up question still linger as a new day [...]

Waledac Spamming Image Hosting and Italian Job Offers

If you have been swamped lately by email offering unlimited image hosting services at a certain site such as the one below, blame Waledac for that.

Figure 1. Image hosting spam Worth noting also is that this particular image hosting site’s name bears resemblance to the publisher of the most popular MMORPG (massively multiplayer [...]