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Mac users may face less malware attacks than their Windows counterparts, but it doesn’t mean they are safe from online crooks. In this post we review the top malvertising attacks that target the OS X platform and how to stay safe.Categories: Social eng… Continue reading An overview of malvertising on the Mac
In this post, we review the changes in the exploit kit landscape over the past months by looking at new arrivals and departures.Categories: ExploitsTags: EKexploit kitsMagnitudeNeutrino-vRIGRIG-Vsundown(Read more…) Continue reading Exploit Kits: Fall 2016 Review
A flaw found in an HTML5 API is being used by tech support scammers to push fraudulent pages and freeze people’s computers with a fake virus warning.Categories: Social engineeringTags: HTML5microsoftpushstatetech supporttech support scams(Read more…) Continue reading Tech support scammers abuse bug in HTML5 to freeze computers
In this post we take a look at a malvertising campaign that we traced back to late August and that is targeting adult traffic. While initially pushing the Neutrino exploit kit, it switched to RIG EK in September. We estimate that at least one million v… Continue reading The HookAds malvertising campaign
In this post we take a look at a malvertising campaign that we traced back to late August and that is targeting adult traffic. While initially pushing the Neutrino exploit kit, it switched to RIG EK in September. We estimate that at least one million v… Continue reading The HookAds malvertising campaign
The Sundown exploit kit is keeping us busy by switching from one variant to the next. This latest one clearly was inspired by the original source code and we take the time to explore it a little bit more.Categories: ExploitsTags: EKexploit kitLockysund… Continue reading Yet another Sundown EK variant?
The Sundown exploit kit is keeping us busy by switching from one variant to the next. This latest one clearly was inspired by the original source code and we take the time to explore it a little bit more.Categories: ExploitsTags: EKexploit kitLockysund… Continue reading Yet another Sundown EK variant?
In this post we take a quick glance at some changes made to the Sundown exploit kit. The landing page has been tweaked and uses various obfuscation techniques. Sundown is used in some smaller campaigns and in this particular case dropped a downloader f… Continue reading New-looking Sundown EK drops Smoke Loader, Kronos banker
In the battle of exploit kits, RIG EK has earned some extra mileage by being leveraged in a high profile malvertising attack on popular website answers.com. The same domain shadowing campaigns that were popular in the Angler era are continuing with RIG… Continue reading RIG exploit kit takes on large malvertising campaign
The website for Just For Men, a company that sells various products for men, had their website breached and was serving a password stealing Trojan. The malicious code embedded in the WordPress site was part of the EITest campaign and pushed the RIG exp… Continue reading Just For Men website serves malware