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Apparently theДЄttackers were able to leverage this vector further until they gainedДЄccess to the critical SecurID data they were looking for,вЂќ F-Secure Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen wrote in a blog post.ДЄ Virustotal employee said on Twitter Friday morning that the same file, albeit with a different name, was submitted to the malware-checking service by a separate user, as well. Even worse, it has fullДЄccess to network drives that the user can access. Once the connection is made, the attacker hasДЇull remote access to the infected workstation.

The domain has been used in similar espionage attacks over an extended period of time.

вЂњ After this, Poison Ivy connects back to itвЂ™s server at. The exploit then plants the Poison Ivy backdoor on the machine and the attack is over. Once the victim double-clicked on the Excel file, it opened a spreadsheet with no real contents other than the malicious Flash object that then exploited a Flash vulnerability. Please open and view it.вЂќ ThatвЂ™s the entire contents of the message. The email itself contains just one line of text, which in the grand tradition of phishers everywhere, is in fourth-grade English: The email appeared to come from the address вЂњwebmaster beyond dot comвЂќ, a job recruitment site. The subject line of the email is вЂњ2011 Recruitment PlanвЂќ and the Excel attachment had the same name. If the message and attachment that F-Secure researcher Timo Hirvonen found is indeed the same one used in the RSA attackвЂ“and the file name and description do fit what RSA has said publiclyвЂ“then neither the attack nor the messageвЂ™s social engineering tactics appear to very sophisticated. The Outlook email message containing the malicious file apparently was uploaded to Virustotal in March and the researchers dug it out this week. Assa Abloy did not immediately respond to Newsweek's request for comment.Researchers at anti-malware company F-Secure say they have found the actual infected Excel file that was used in the attack on RSA earlier this year, eventually forcing the company to replace millions of its SecurID tokens. 'It is not the system we promote any more or build our technology on the challenge we have is we don't know necessarily if those systems are still up and running,' Sut told Wired UK. The hack F-Secure used does not apply to the company's more updated versions.

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'We don't know of anyone else performing this particular attack in the wild right now.'ДЇ-Secure notified Assa Abloy a year ago and worked with the lock manufacturer to implement software fixes in February of this year.Д¬hristophe Sut, Assa Abloy executive vice president and head of hospitality, told Wired UK that Vision by VingCard is a fairly old system that was developed 20 years ago. 'You can imagine what a malicious person could do with the power to enter any hotel room, with a master key created basically out of thin air,' Tuominen said.

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The flaw discovery prompted Assa Abloy, the world's largest lock manufacturer, to release a software update with security fixes, F-Secure said. 'We wanted to find out if it's possible to bypass the electronic lock without leaving a trace,' senior security consultant Timo Hirvonen said in a statement.

Researchers used the information on an electronic key, RFID or magstripe, from the targeted hotel to create a master key that could open any room at the hotel. So Tuominen and his colleagues set out to solve the mysterious breach. Staff at the Alexanderplatz Radisson reportedly dismissed the complaint because there was no sign of forced entry or evidence of unauthorized access. The research began when a friend of F-Secure practice leader Tomi Tuominen had his laptop stolen during a security conference in Berlin in 2003, according to W ired. Finnish firm F-Security discovered a security flaw that could allow hackers to create a fake master key and potentially enter any hotel room. A man looks through a window in a hotel in Cancun, Mexico, on December 7, 2010, during the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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