microsoft rpc

The creativity and resourcefulness of the criminal underground never ceases to amaze me. Granted, these guys have nothing else to do but sit around and come up with new scams, but still, some of these things are truly inspired. Have a look at this Google AdWords phishing scam that has been showing up in recent [...]  read more »

A new Trojan exploiting the Microsoft RPC flaw propagates automatically through networks and finds cached passwords.

The vulnerability that Microsoft patched today with an out-of-band patch is about as serious as they come, allowing remote code execution on every supported version of Windows. The rare emergency patch–which is the first Microsoft has issued since early 2007–was prompted by the fact that the company has been seeing targeted attacks against the vulnerability [...]  read more »