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Home   »   Archives for November 2012

News from the Underground: Toolkit/Exploit Kit Developments

  • Posted on:November 30, 2012 at 9:13 pm
  • Posted in:Bad Sites
  • Author:
    Loucif Kharouni (Senior Threat Researcher)
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In the past year, we’ve noticed many changes in how toolkits and exploit kits are being used.  For starters, the bad guys are spending more time securing their creations , as well as the servers where their malware will be installed. They do this to prevent leaks, as well as to make things harder for security researchers. Here are…

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Tags: blackholecitadelexploit kitsSpyEyespywareZeuS

Monitoring Vulnerabilities: Are your Servers Exploit-Proof?

  • Posted on:November 29, 2012 at 3:02 pm
  • Posted in:Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Bernadette Irinco (Technical Communications)
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Apart from keeping servers and endpoints secure, IT teams in enterprises also make sure that day-to-day business operations run smoothly. With this in mind, IT groups often delay installing security updates once software vendors release them for several reasons. For one, applying patches often require restarts for mission critical servers and at times these may…

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What’s the Fuss with WORM_VOBFUS?

  • Posted on:November 29, 2012 at 7:36 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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Some malware are more persistent than others – like WORM_VOBFUS. This recent heap of WORM_VOBFUS variants seen spreading on Facebook does not exhibit new routines, but it is a good reminder for users about well-known but easily forgotten safe computing practices. Based on our initial analysis, these WORM_VOBFUS variants that do not show any advanced…

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Tags: FacebookMalwarevobfusvulnerability

Other Risks from Automatic Replies

  • Posted on:November 29, 2012 at 1:48 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Jonathan Leopando (Technical Communications)
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We discussed last week the risks that out-of-office notifications pose for organizations – namely, that they could serve as leaks that an attacker could use to conduct successful attacks. However, the threats from automatic e-mail replies don’t stop with out-of-office notifications. Two other types of automatic replies also pose a threat: bounce messages, and read…

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The Ins and Outs of Spear-Phishing

  • Posted on:November 28, 2012 at 8:05 am
  • Posted in:Spam
  • Author:
    Roland Dela Paz (Threat Researcher)
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In the discussion of targeted attacks, it is usually taken for granted that they arrived via some sort of spear-phishing attack. The discussion then goes into an analysis of the malware involved and/or the servers used or compromised in the attack. However, to avoid attacks in the first place, it is of value to look…

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Business Process Compromise

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