In light of the slew of persistent black hole spam runs, we have been tracking and investigating this threat that leads users to the black hole exploit. These attacks typically start with a spammed message containing a link to a compromised website that redirects a user’s browser to a malicious site hosting the said [...]
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Targeted attacks that are part of APT campaigns commonly use exploit documents in their social engineering ploy. These exploit documents serve as unassuming carriers of the attacker’s payload malware into the target’s computer. Since exploit documents are one of the first arrival vectors of APT malware, a little knowledge of the most exploited software [...] The Police Trojan has been targeting European users for about a year. It should come as no surprise that the latest incarnations of this obnoxious malware have started targeting the United States and Canada. In the latest batch of C&C servers we have analyzed, not only has the list of countries increased but also [...] While seven bulletins from Microsoft is generally a “light” release, bulletin MS12-034 surprisingly addresses a number of vulnerabilities found in the Windows operating system, MS Office, Silverlight, and .NET Framework. Of note, Microsoft mentions that this particular bulletin supersedes MS11-087, the bulletin meant to address the Win32k TrueType Font (TTF) vulnerability that was used by [...] Targeted Attack Uses Recent Adobe Flash Player Vulnerability (CVE-2012-0779) Reports of a targeted attack surfaced recently. One such attack arrives as an email message that trick users into executing a malicious attachment. The malicious attachment, as expected, is a file that exploits CVE-2012-0779, found in several versions of Adobe Flash Player. Exploitation results to a [...] |
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