Tag Archives: Trojan.Dropper

Symantec Protection for Trojan.FakeSafe

Today, Trend Micro published a report about a targeted attack campaign they’re calling SafeNet (the campaign’s name is unrelated to the security company of the same name). The group behind this campaign is utilizing spear phishing emails wi…

Latest Java Zero-Day Shares Connections with Bit9 Security Incident

Symantec recently received information on a new Java zero-day, Oracle Java Runtime Environment CVE-2013-1493 Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1493).  The final payload in the attack consisted of a DLL file, detected by Symantec as Tro…

Fake Antivirus Renewal Email Rises from the Dead

Over the last few years, many reports, white papers, and blogs have been released detailing targeted attacks. For example, some attacks employ sophisticated infection methods, such as watering hole attacks, and some rely on exploit code hidden in docum…