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RTF Attack Takes Advantage of Multiple Exploits
This is a joint analysis by Haifei Li, Stanley Zhu, and Jun Xie of McAfee Labs Recently,...Trojan Hides in ROM of Chinese Android Devices
In China, some mobile phone geeks like to refresh their Android machines with images from the Internet....Suspicious Mobile App Finds Your Gmail, Facebook, and Twitter Accounts
Today many people use multiple web services, such as social networking and messaging services. Some users explicitly...Product Coverage and Mitigation for CVE-2014-1761 (Microsoft Word)
On March 24, Microsoft released Security Advisory 2953095 for Microsoft Word. In-the-wild exploitation of this vulnerability has...Analyzing the Uroburos PatchGuard Bypass
A few weeks ago G Data Software released a report detailing alleged intelligence agency software. Following the release...Timeline of Bitcoin Events Demonstrates Online Currency’s Volatility
The buzz about Bitcoin has moved from online circles to mainstream media sources. Last week’s news of...Automatic App Installation from Google Play Poses Big Risk
Android users usually download and install applications from the Google Play store through several interactions with the...Internet Explorer Zero Day Offers Unusual Case Study
While analyzing a recent Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2014-0322 (containing the Flash sample hash b9c9dab0fd30418884800afebbaba4d99f4526ef0c9a47972a20ab20fed0a06d), we noticed...Examining Your Very Own Sefnit Trojan
Analysis of Sefnit Trojan machine locking featureCareto Worldwide Malware Attack Unmasked
On Monday Kaspersky Labs announced the discovery of a large number of malware infections across large parts...January 2014 #SecChat Wrap-up — Threat Predictions
Threats seem to be top of mind for the masses of late—with three large-scale attacks on major...Plasma HTTP Botnet Steals Passwords From Chrome, FileZilla
Last year we reported on the Athena HTTP botnet, which targets Windows XP systems, mostly for distributed...
