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Latest Java Zero-Day Shares Connections with Bit9 Security Incident
Symantec recently received information on a new Java zero-day, Oracle Java Runtime Environment CVE-2013-1493 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1493). The final payload in the attack...
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Phishers Target Myanmar with Wut Hmone Shwe Yee
Contributor: Avdhoot PatilPhishers have already made their mark in Southeast Asia by targeting Indonesians. For the past couple of years, celebrities have been their key interest in the region. Aura...
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Malware Attacks Targeting Hugo Chavez’s Death
Contributor: Ruby YangRumors of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death were rampant on the news and Internet over the past month, and last Tuesday, the Venezuelan Vice President confirmed that Chavez...
View ArticleMicrosoft Patch Tuesday – March 2013
Hello, welcome to this month's blog on the Microsoft patch release. This month the vendor is releasing seven bulletins covering a total of 20 vulnerabilities. Twelve of this month's issues are rated...
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Spammers Special Feast for St. Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is a global celebration of Irish culture and a religious holiday on March 17, and it is very special to Irish communities and organizations. Recently, we have observed numerous St....
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Much More Than a Free 50 Pound Bet
Contributor: Vivek KrishnamurthiThe Cheltenham Festival, also known as the National Hunt Meeting, is a popular horse racing event that occurs every year in March in the United Kingdom. The festival...
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Android Malware Spams Victim’s Contacts
SMS messages attempting to lure Android device owners to download an app that supposedly allows the camera on the device to see through clothes are circulating in Japan. This type of spam is usually...
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Android.Uracto Used to Trick Mothers, Anime Fans, Gamers, and More
Earlier today, we blogged about Android.Uracto, a malicious app that sends spam SMS messages in an attempt to infect others or scam users into paying a fee for a non-existing service. We continued...
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Pope Themed Spam Attacks Lead to Malware
Contributor: Saurabh FarkadeThe Vatican City has been in the news a lot in the past few weeks due to Benedict XVI’s resignation and the election of Pope Francis. Spammers have picked up on this...
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The New Black: Facebook Black Scam Spreads on Facebook
Yesterday, Facebook users may have noticed an influx of their friends posting about something called Facebook Black. Figure 1. Facebook photo plugging “Faecbook” Black (notice the typo in this image)...
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Blackhole Exploit Kit Takes Advantage of Cypriot Financial Crisis
In recent days, the European Union (EU) financial crisis has taken a dramatic turn. Cyprus, one of the EU's smallest member states by population, announced plans to impose a one-off levy of up to 10...
View ArticleSouth Korean Banks and Broadcasting Organizations Suffer Major Damage from...
It has been reported in the media that several South Korean banks and local broadcasting organizations have been impacted by a cyber attack.The attack included the defacement of a Korean ISP/telecoms...
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TeamSpy: Backdoor to the Viewer
Today, the Laboratory of Cryptography and System Security (Crysys) at Budapest University of Technology and Economics, released their research around a targeted attack they have identified, named...
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Remote Linux Wiper Found in South Korean Cyber Attack
Earlier today we published our initial findings about the attacks on South Korean banks and local broadcasting organizations. We have now discovered an additional component used in this attack that is...
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Indian Websites Pursued by Phishers
Contributor: Ayub KhanSymantec has been constantly monitoring phishing sites hosted on compromised Indian websites. In 2011, our study detailed these compromised sites and we did a similar study of...
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New Tidserv Variant Downloads 50 MB Chromium Embedded Framework
Tidserv (a.k.a. TDL) is a complex threat that employs rootkit functionality in an attempt to evade detection. The malware continues to be on the Symantec radar since its discovery back in 2008. The...
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Different Wipers Identified in South Korean Cyber Attack
Our analysis of Trojan.Jokra, the threat which recently caused major outages within the Korean Broadcasting and Banking sectors, has produced another wiper.Security researchers the past few days have...
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Lime Pop: The Next Android.Enesoluty App
The gang that maintains Android.Enesoluty has been busy since last summer registering over one hundred domains used to host app sites and sending spam from these domains. It is now apparent that the...
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Spammer's Magical Gifts this Easter
Easter Sunday is one of the most important festivals in the Christian calendar and it is observed anywhere between March 22 and April 25 each year; this year it falls on March 31. Spam messages related...
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New Ransomlock Variant Bypasses Automated Threat Analysis Systems’ Sandboxes
A lot of malware modify themselves to either hide from security software when they copy themselves to the compromised computer or to hinder engineers attempting to analyze the malware by executing the...
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