Symantec’s November Intelligence Report reveals some interesting details on the evolution of cyberattacks and how many of them were successfully mitigated by the security solutions provider.
Worryingly, on average, 94 targeted attacks were blocked each day in November, the most frequently targeted industry bei... |
7 December 2011
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After months of searching, security researchers have managed to obtain a copy of the APT used against RSA Security and found that it dropped a variant of the Poison Ivy backdoor.The March RSA Security intrusion which resulted in the theft of data related to the company's popular SecurID two-factor authentication... |
26 August 2011
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Security researchers from F-Secure have spotted a new PDF-based email attack that appears to target people working in the defense industry.According to the Finnish antivirus vendor, the attack was intercepted last week and is still ongoing. It uses the 2012 AIAA Strategic and Tactical Missile Systems Conference as lu... |
18 July 2011
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Security researchers report that a remote code execution IE vulnerability was exploited in the wild before before being patched by Microsoft earlier this month.The vulnerability, known as CVE-2011-1255, affects IE 6, 7, and 8 on all Windows versions and was fixed as part of Microsoft's MS11-050 Security Bulletin... |
29 June 2011
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After a UK human rights website was infected with a Flash zero-day exploit, security researchers from Symantec discovered two more similar sites compromised in Philippines and Hong Kong.The drive-by download attack on the UK human rights site was discovered by web security vendor Armorize back on April 13th.The compr... |
17 May 2011
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Security researchers warn that many departments in the US government were targeted in an email attack using a bin Laden death theme and distributing malicious .doc files.The rogue emails bear a subject of "Courier who led U.S. to Osama bin Laden's hideout identified" and carry a simple message reading "to whom i... |
5 May 2011
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The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has temporarily shut down Internet access across its facilities after discovering that two computers were infected with malware as a result of a targeted email attack.The Tennessee-based national laboratory funded by the U.S. Department of Energy conducts classified research i... |
20 April 2011
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Symantec warns that a 0-day vulnerability, affecting stable versions of Internet Explorer, is being exploited in a sophisticated attack, which targets key people in various organizations.The attack begins with fake emails posing as hotel reservation notifications. "About the hotel room, please take the attached list ... |
4 November 2010
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Korean officials claim that hackers from China stole classified documents from the country's defense and foreign affairs ministries earlier this year by infecting computers with malware.AFP cites a National Intelligence Service (NIS) spokesperson, according to whom, attackers sent targeted emails in which they i... |
15 October 2010
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Symantec has intercepted a highly sophisticated attack against two defense contractors, which leveraged the unpatched Windows Help Center vulnerability disclosed earlier this month. Complex social engineering techniques were also used to trick their employees into opening a malicious link.The attack started with the ... |
30 June 2010
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The Christian Science Monitor reports that in the last half of 2008, several oil companies fell victim to highly sophisticated malware attacks, aimed at stealing valuable oil exploration data. The incidents bear a striking resemblance to the attacks that targeted Google, Adobe and a series of other companies.The alle... |
27 January 2010
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The breach of an online payroll processing system belonging to a large provider called PayChoice has surfaced after its customers have started receiving targeted malware distribution attacks via email. The attackers are looking to infect the company's clients with an information-stealing trojan after they only s... |
2 October 2009
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