This is not the first Flash Zero Day and it certainly won’t be the last, thanks to the Sandbox implemented in Chrome since 2011 – users of the browser are fairly safe. Those using IE are in danger (as usual) and certain versions of Firefox. It has been rolled into the popular Angler Exploit Kit, […]
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Sony Digital Certs Being Used To Sign Malware
So at the end of November, Sony got owned, owned REAL bad – we wrote about it here: Sony Pictures Hacked โ Employee Details & Movies Leaked. It seems in as a part of the massive haul of documents, the digital certificates used to sign software were also stolen. Which is bad, as you can […]
Twitter Patents Technique To Detect Mobile Malware
So it was discovered that Twitter has been granted a patent which covers detection of mobile malware on websites to protect its user base. The patent was filed back in 2012, but well – as we know these things take time. The method is something like the technology Google uses in Chrome to warn you […]
ParanoiDF – PDF Analysis & Password Cracking Tool
ParanoiDF is a PDF Analysis Suite based on PeePDF by Jose Miguel Esparza. The tools/features that have been added are – Password cracking, redaction recovery, DRM removal, malicious JavaScript extraction, and more. We have posted about a few PDF related tools before, including the one this tool is based on: – peepdf โ Analyze & […]
Windows Registry Infecting Malware Has NO Files
This is a pretty interesting use of the Windows Registry and reminds me a little of the transient drive-by malware used last year against Internet Explorer that left no files either – Another IE 0-Day Hole Found & Used By In-Memory Drive By Attacks. The main difference being, that wasn’t persistent and as it lived […]