Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The…
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RIG exploit kit takes on large malvertising campaign
There has been an interesting battle between two exploit kits in the past few months. Following the demise of the Angler…
A week in security (Sep 11 – Sep 17)
Last week, we talked about HTA infections, brought to light some SMS phishing campaigns aimed at Bank of America (BofA) and…
Neutrino EK’s Afraidgate pushed in malvertising attack
During the past few weeks there has been an increase in malvertising attacks, for example via a series of compromises of open source…
Exploit kit shakedown: RIG EK grabs Neutrino EK campaigns
Exploit kits are going through some strange phases these days. Two major malware distribution campaigns, namely Pseudo Darkleech and EITTest traditionally…
Neutrino EK: more Flash trickery
A while back we wrote about the Neutrino exploit kit performing fingerprinting checks to weed out security researchers and honeypots attempting to catch…
A look into Neutrino EK’s jQueryGate
In the cybercrime landscape, Exploit Kits (EKs) are the tool of choice to infect endpoints by exploiting software vulnerabilities. However, a…
Neutrino EK picks up momentum in recent attacks
While overall exploit kit activity has been somewhat low during the past weeks, we have noted some changes in Neutrino, the leading…
Malvertising slowing down, but not out
We have not seen very many large scale malvertising attacks following the mysterious disappearance of the powerful Angler EK. The ones we…