Last week we published a blog post about a CVE-2013-5330 exploit. We’ve also recently seen a new, similar attack targeting a patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2014-0497). The vulnerability related to this malware was addressed with a patch released by Adobe on February 4, 2014. Flash Player versions 12.0.0.43 and earlier are vulnerable. We analyzed how these …
Category: Antimalware definitions
Released Antimalware Definitions
The MSRT in Action: Keeping systems safe
In four days the January release of the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) detected almost a million threats on PCs across the globe. In the video below, Dustin Childs and Joe Faulhaber explain what happened as the MSRT sprang into action. Microsoft Malware Protection Center
A close look at a targeted attack delivery
For antimalware products, targeted attacks represent a very interesting class of malware. They are stealthy and only target specific organizations and industries – flying under the radar when it comes to identifying new malware files based on telemetry. The purpose of these attacks is most commonly to steal confidential and sensitive information by means of …
Malicious Proxy Auto-Config redirection
Internet banking credentials are a desired target for cybercriminals. They can be targeted with man-in-the-middle attacks or through password stealing trojans such as Fareit, Zbot or Banker. A less known, yet commonly found in South America and to a lesser extent in Russia, method to gain unauthorized access to a user’s banking credentials is through …
New Definitions in build (1.167.502.0)
Name Alert Level Worm:Win32/Citeary.D severe PWS:Win32/Dexter.A severe Trojan:Win32/Dynamer severe VirTool:MSIL/Injector severe Backdoor:Win32/Momibot severe Worm:Win32/Phorpiex.B severe Trojan:Win32/Radyoork.A severe Trojan:Win32/Tesch.B severe Antimalware Definitions Released