Category Archives: Exploits

Spamvertised ‘Termination of your CPA license’ campaign serving client-side exploits

February 25, 2012 – 2:41 pm

By Dancho Danchev Cybercriminals are currently spamvertising ‘Termination of your CPA license‘ emails, enticing users into clicking on a malicious link supposedly redirecting to the complaint.pdf file. More details:

By ddanchev | Also posted in mal-effects, malware, spam, Threat Research | Leave a Comment

Report: Internet Explorer 9 leads in socially-engineered malware protection

February 14, 2012 – 6:17 pm

By Dancho Danchev According to a newly released report from NSS Labs, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 outperforms competing browsers in protecting against socially engineered malware. More details:

By ddanchev | Also posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, malware, social engineering, Threat Research | Comments (4)

Adobe issues a patch for critical security holes in Reader and Acrobat

January 11, 2012 – 7:48 am

by Dancho Danchev As part of its quarterly patch update, today Adobe issued a critical security update plugging multiple security holes in its Acrobat Reader, and Adobe Acrobat software applications. More details:

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Mass SQL injection attack affects over 200,000 URLs

January 5, 2012 – 3:41 pm

by Dancho Danchev Security researchers from the Internet Storm Center, have intercepted a currently ongoing SQL injection attack, that has already affected over 200,000 URLs. The attack was originally detected in early December, 2011. It currently affects ASP sites and Coldfusion, as well as all versions of MSSQL.

By ddanchev | Also posted in Threat Research, Uncategorized, Website owners | Comments (4)

This blackhole exploit kit gives you Windows Media Player and a whole lot more

November 11, 2011 – 10:11 am

By Mike Johnson As a follow-up to the Blackhole Exploit posting, I thought I would share one aspect of my job that I truely enjoy: Discovery. While investigating some active urls being served up via a blackhole kit, I noticed something quite odd, as I would end up on sites that had malicious code injected into their webpages. Once [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Destructive behavior, Internet Explorer, malware, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Comments (4)
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