Vulnerabilities and exploits

As the subject of targeted attacks remains one of the industry’s most hotly discussed topics, and the waves of such attacks appear to be relentless, our experts, Kostin and Magnus, together with the team, decided to continue on with the theme.

With Apple fans waiting for the release of the Greenpois0n jailbreaking tool, the cybercriminals are exploiting the fuss with “Greenpois0n” trojans.

We’re still monitoring Pegel, and we’ve come across something which piqued our interest: redirects to malicious websites hosting exploits weren’t only coming from infected legitimate sites, but also from flash ads on legitimate sites.

Over the past few weeks the AV industry has continued to focus its research efforts on the Stuxnet worm. We blogged about what we found while we were investigating the malware; our Stuxnet series may have come to an end, but that doesn’t mean we’ve stopped our research.

Today Adobe put out an advisory for a previously unknown zero-day in its PDF Reader/Acrobat software.
This vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild.

In the past, we’ve seen Web defacers act with only with political motivation. That has now changed. The Web defacers are being used by the online money gangs as a part of outsourced services.

The Winlock numbers, the Winlock laws

The cyber-criminal groups behind fake anti-virus (scareware/rogueware) infections have run into some significant roadblocks over the last few years, but there is much more to the overall story.

The Winlock case – I’m taking bets!

We all know that cybercriminals will target anything and everything they can reach

Oops they did it again!

Microsoft released MS10-046 which deals with the LNK vulnerability originally exploited by Stuxnet.

I just came across a suspicious PDF file, so I decided to take a deeper look. Once the file was unpacked, I got an xml file with TIFF image

Providing randomly generated input to different open source disassembler libraries generates surprisingly differing output and the CPU interprets it differently yet again.

Vacation is a time for visiting friends and family, going abroad, eating ice-cream, gardening – whatever helps you regroup and recharge