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New Headaches: How The Pawn Storm Zero-Day Evaded Java’s Click-to-Play Protection

  • Posted on:October 19, 2015 at 10:39 pm
  • Posted in:Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Jack Tang (Threats Analyst)
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Several months ago, we disclosed that Pawn Storm was using a then-undiscovered zero-day Java vulnerability to carry out its attacks. At the time, we noted that a separate vulnerability was used to bypass the click-to-play protection that is in use by Java. This second vulnerability has now been patched by Oracle as part of its regular quarterly update.

Click-to-play requires the user to click the space where the Java app would normally be displayed before it is executed. In effect, it asks the user if they are really sure they want to run any Java code.

Bypassing click-to-play protection allows for malicious Java code to run without any alert windows being shown. This was quite useful in Pawn Storm, as it used exploits targeting these vulnerabilities to carry out targeted attacks against North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and the White House earlier this year.

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Tags: Click-to-PlayCVE-2015-4902Java Naming and Directory InterfaceNATONorth Atlantic Treaty OrganizationPawn StormvulnerabilityWhite Housezero day

Operation Pawn Storm Ramps Up its Activities; Targets NATO, White House

  • Posted on:April 16, 2015 at 5:11 am
  • Posted in:Malware, Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Feike Hacquebord (Senior Threat Researcher)
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Long-running APT campaign Operation Pawn Storm has begun the year with a bang, introducing new infrastructure and zeroing in on targets including North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members and even the White House. This is according to the latest intelligence gleaned from Trend Micro’s ongoing research into the attack group, and comes as a follow-up…

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Tags: NATOOperation Pawn StormSEDNITWhite House

NATO’s NSHQ Targeted by Attack Leveraging Hurricane Sandy

  • Posted on:November 19, 2012 at 11:58 am
  • Posted in:Targeted Attacks
  • Author:
    Ivan Macalintal (Threat Research Manager)
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It’s been weeks now since we’ve watched the destructive effects of Hurricane Sandy to the environment and to the folks living in affected areas. Trend Micro and the security industry have been in the lookout for scams and threats using Sandy as a social engineering ploy to infiltrate targets. During our tracking of targeted attacks…

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Tags: enfalLURIDNATONSHQSandyTargeted Attack

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