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Earlier today, reports of a number of cyberattacks against various South Korean targets hit the news. The attackers, going by the handle “Whois Team” left a number of messages during the defacements: The code used for defacement, posted by an anonymous user to the “pygments.org” forum (see http://pygments.org/demo/68313/) indicates several e-mails used by the … On Feb 12th 2013, FireEye announced the discovery of an Adobe Reader 0-day exploit which is used to drop a previously unknown, advanced piece of malware. We called this new malware “ItaDuke” because it reminded us of Duqu and because of the ancient Italian comments in the shellcode copied from Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy”. Previously, … Not really, especially in Latin America. Every day we register lots of similar attacks, each abusing local DNS settings. Actually these attacks are a bit different because they modify the local HOST file but the principle is the same – redirecting the victim to a malicious host via malicious DNS records. Latin American cybercriminals are … FBI’s “Operation Ghost Click” was discussed earlier by my colleague Kurt here and here and now it comes to an end. Next Monday, 9th of July, at 06:00 (MEZ) the temporary DNS-servers setup by FBI will be shut down. But still there are still thousands of infected machines – one can wonder, what will happen … Recently, we came by an interesting targeted attack which was evading most antivirus products. This is a recent spearphish targeting various Tibetan and human rights activists. It demonstrates the level of effort put into infiltrating their groups with some unique characteristics, relative to the many other exploits targeting CVE-2012-0158. Here’s how such e-mails appear: … Flame (aka Flame aka Skywiper) is a massive, complex piece of malware, used for information gathering and espionage. The malware is most likely created by a western intelligence agency or military. It has infected computers in Iran, Lebanon, Syria, Sudan and elsewhere. There seems to be a clear difference in how online espionage is done … The security industry is currently buzzing with talks about a threat dubbed as the precursor to the next STUXNET. According to a Symantec analysis, portions of the code are very similar to STUXNET, and was likely written by the same cybercriminals as the well-known threat. Unlike STUXNET, however, Duqu does not have code that suggests it … A common misconception is that URL filtering is enough protection on the Secure Web Gateway, and that there’s little need for anti-malware (anti-virus) scanning. Before we explain why you really need both WebFilter (URL filtering) and ProxyAV (anti-malware) in your Secure Web Gateway deployment, let’s first explain what each one of these features actually does. … The programme of the second day of the VB conference was very mixed. In the corporate stream we have seen sessions about MacOSX Malware, Android Malware and various techniques to identify and analyze distributed attacks. In the technical stream there also were many interesting presentations about mobile malware, malware analysis, and two presentations which try …
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