Network World

Defending against exploit kits

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Exploit kits comprised of ...
Computerworld

Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit

Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are ...
Homeland Security Today

Exploit Kits: The Silent Web Threat Affecting Billions

When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...
InfoWorld

Hackers update malware tool kit with zero-day code

A new version of the IcePack hacker exploit tool kit has been released, security researchers warned Tuesday, and for the first time it includes attack code designed to exploit an unpatched, or ...
Dark Reading

Angler Climbing To Top Of Exploit Heap

A new report out by Sophos shows that in a post-Blackhole exploit kit world, Angler is gaining ground as a favorite attack tool among cybercriminals. "Since the demise of the Blackhole exploit kit in ...
Network World

The Neutrino exploit kit has a new way to detect security researchers

The developers of the Neutrino exploit kit have added a new feature intended to thwart security researchers from studying their attacks. The feature was discovered after Trustwave’s SpiderLabs ...
Homeland Security Today

A Deep Dive Into RIG Exploit Kit Delivering Grobios Trojan

Exploit kit activity has been on the decline since the latter half of 2016. However, we do still periodically observe significant developments in this space, and we have been observing interesting ...
CSOonline

Widely used Web attack toolkit exploits unpatched MSXML flaw

An exploit for an unpatched vulnerability in the Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) has been incorporated into Blackhole, one of the most widely used Web attack toolkits, according to security ...
Bleeping Computer

US offers $2.5 million reward for hacker linked to Angler Exploit Kit

The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a reward of $2,500,000 for information leading to Belarusian national Volodymyr Kadariya (Владимир Кадария) for cybercrime activities ...
Dark Reading

RIG Exploit Kit Injects Code That Creates Monero Miner

Researchers from FireEye have found the first use in the wild of a new kind of injection technique that was first described in October. The technique is used by the RIG exploit kit to inject code that ...
CSOonline

Angler exploit kit bypassing EMET, delivers TeslaCrypt

Researchers at FireEye have discovered exploits targeting Flash and Silverlight in the Angler exploit kit, which are bypassing Microsoft’s system hardening Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET ...
Computerworld

Hackers update malware tool kit, add first zero-day attack code

A new version of the IcePack hacker exploit tool kit has been released, security researchers warned today, and for the first time it includes attack code designed to exploit an unpatched, or zero-day, ...