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[Nart Villeneuve] Rob Lemos covered the story and also revealed that the law firm representing Solid Oak subsequently came under a similar targeted malware attack. The story has surfaced again, this time in connection with APT.

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[SecDev.cyber] Malware Attacks on Solid Oak After Dispute with Greendam: The Malware Lab, of which Nart Villeneuve is a member, posted an analysis of the attacks on Solid Oak which occurred after researchers found significant portions of code from Solid Oak's Cybersitter in China's Greendam filtering .

[HPCwire: Relevant HPC news stories from around the globe] HPCwire: Grant Will Allow University Researcher To Track Spread Of ...: 16 -- An assistant professor with the Virginia Tech College of Engineering has won a $750,000 federal grant to formulate a mathematical framework that can track the spread of pandemics among populations and malware across wireless computer networks, as well as how a blackout occurring on one major power grid can cause a cascade of additional neighboring networks to fail.

[Malware Lab] Targeted Malware Attack on Foreign Correspondent's based in China: These attacks correlate with reports of increased security measures within China as a result of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China.2 These increased security measures have also been extended to the Internet, with providers of anti-censorship technology reporting increased levels of blocking that prevents people from accessing the web sites of foreign media and news organizations.3

[Information Warfare Monitor] Targeted Malware Attack on Foreign Correspondents based in China: For example, “wei zheng” also registered “fclinux.com” with the email address “asdfi@hotmail.com” and the phone number “86 10 13810358162.” This “wei zheng” also registered “winxpupdata.com” with the phone number “86 10 13810358162” with the email address “afsaf@hotmail.com.” A variety of domain names, such as ag365.com, are registered to “Hetu Time Networking Technology Ltd.” in the name of “lin long” with the email address “harry@hetu.cn.” However the technical contact is “lin hai” with the email address “sunny@hetu.cn.”

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[Ferris Research] AVG Antivirus and Security Software - AVG Releases Far-Reaching ...: AVG security researchers, led by Karel Obluk, Roger Thompson and Petr Odehnal, were among the first in the industry to note the subsequent increase in more aggressive and dangerous threats that manifested themselves as drive-by downloads - delivery of malware that required no user interaction beyond visiting a particular web page. These threats were clearly designed to steal personal information, track user movements and actions, acquire bank account or credit card data and other digital assets, all in an effort to make money.

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[GFW BLOG] GFW BLOG: Nart Villeneuveå’ŒGreg Walton撰写的“驻华外国记者助理受 ...: The attacks specifically targeted Chinese employees working for media organizations, including Reuters, the Straits Times, Dow Jones, Agence France Presse, and Ansa.1 These employees received an email from "Pam " who claimed to be an editor with the Straits Times, that came with a PDF attachment that contains malware. When opened, malicious code in the PDF exploits the Adobe Reader program and drops the malware on the target's computer.

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