Foreign languages are no longer as difficult to understand as they once were, thanks to improvements in web translation services, which instantly translate words and web pages. The website translator plug-in can expand your global world with an amazing and effortless approach by automatically recognizing foreign-language identifiers. Website translators require JavaScript to be enabled to Read more…
Tags: JavaScript, language translation, redirect, spoof, translator
The winter of 2013 seems to be “zero-day” season. Right after my colleague Haifei Li analyzed the powerful Flash zero day last week, Adobe sent a security alert for another zero-day attack targeting the latest (and earlier) versions of Adobe Reader. Unlike Internet Explorer zero-day exploits that we have seen in the past, this Reader Read more…
Tags: Adobe Reader, broker, JavaScript, PDF, ROP, sandbox, shellcode, XFA, Zero-Day
Last week I kicked off a series of blogs with a discussion of how an effective IPS solution can fight obfuscation techniques by malware. This week, we’ll look at how JavaScript poses a danger when combined with PDF files. One of the easiest and most powerful ways to customize PDF files is by using JavaScript. Read more…
Tags: encoding, evasion, JavaScript, Obfuscation, PDF
Adobe released a security advisory warning the users of a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player Versions 10.2.152.33 and earlier. An exploit targeting this vulnerability was embedded inside Microsoft Excel documents and was used to deliver the malicious code to the victims. McAfee Labs performed a detailed technical analysis of the exploit and learned that Read more…
Tags: Adobe, Flash, JavaScript, Zero-Day
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