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LAS VEGAS — It wasn’t long ago that ROP, or return-oriented programming, was a hacker’s best friend when it came to bypassing mitigations against memory-based attacks such as DEP and ASLR. ROP, however, is so 2005. In the last couple of years, researchers and attackers have figured out how to bypass popular tools such as...
8 September 2015 - 12:58,
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Thanks to Gabor Szappanos of SophosLabs for his behind-the-scenes work on this article. SophosLabs has drawn our attention to a new wave of malware attacks using a recent security bug in Microsoft Word. The bug, known as CVE-2015-1641, was patched by Microsoft back in April 2015 in security bulletin MS15-033. The vulnerability was declared to...