Attackers taking advantage of Epsilon !

We blogged about the Epsilon data breach to give our customers a heads-up on the situation. Recently, our ThreatSeeker® Network discovered a Web attack that takes advantage of the unfortunate news. As with anything our ThreatSeeker Network discovers, Websense customers are protected by ACE, our...

Inside the Black Energy 2 Botnet

By Dmitry Tarakanov Cybercriminals use a variety of bots to conduct DDoS attacks on Internet servers. One of the most popular tools is called Black Energy. To date, Kaspersky Lab has identified and implemented detection for over 4,000 modifications of this malicious program. In mid-2008 malware...

linux/x86 polymorphic Drop suid shell root /tmp/.hiddenshell 161 bytes

Exploit for linux/x86 platform in category shellcode ====================================================================== linux/x86 polymorphic Drop suid shell root /tmp/.hiddenshell 161 bytes ====================================================================== /...

Update Protection against Recent Malware Threats (1-Sep-09)

The update includes new protections against 9 recent malware threats:Backdoor-Trojan: Backdoor.Win32.Dreamy.bcTrickler: Trojan-Dropper.Win32.Agent.aqpnTrickler: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Banload.bvkTrojan: Sus.BancDl-BTrojan: Trojan-Spy.Win32.VB.btmTrojan: Trojan-Downloader.Win32.VB.necTrojan:...

Patch coming for MS PowerPoint zero-day flaw

Exactly one month after malicious hackers started using rigged PowerPoint files to launch targeted attacks, Microsoft announced plans to ship a “critical” bulletin affecting its flagship presentation program. The PowerPoint update is the only bulletin scheduled for this month’s Patch Tuesday on M...

CVE-2006-4274

Rejected reason: Unknown vulnerability in Microsoft PowerPoint allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PPT document, as exploited by malware such as TROJMDROPPER.BH. NOTE: on 20060822, it was determined that TROJMDROPPER.BH was exploiting CVE-2006-0009, so this is n...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2006-0009

Buffer overflow in Microsoft Office 2000 SP3, XP SP3, and other versions and packages, allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code via a routing slip that is longer than specified by the provided length field, as exploited by malware such as TROJMDROPPER.BH and Trojan.PPDropper.E in...

OE6 + VBS + WSH + WIN200 + XP + HTML.DROPPER

We're examining resubmitting to bugtraq html.dropper now updated to in include an .exe http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2260 - apparently the manufacturer didn't consider the original submission worthy of fixing as the same problem has been carried over to Outlook Express 6.00. On a default insta...