Category Archives: Google Chrome

Researchers intercept two client-side exploits serving malware campaigns

February 8, 2012 – 4:52 pm

By Dancho Danchev Security researchers from Webroot have intercepted two currently live client-side exploits serving malware campaigns that have already managed to infect over 20,000 PCs across the globe, primarily in the United States. Based upon detailed analysis, it can be concluded that both campaigns are launched by the same cybercriminal. More details:

By ddanchev | Also posted in Downloaders, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, malware, Passwords, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (1)

Cybercriminals generate malicious Java applets using DIY tools

January 30, 2012 – 3:22 pm

By Dancho Danchev Who said there’s such a thing as a trusted Java applet? In situations where malicious attackers cannot directly exploit client-side vulnerabilities on the targeted host, they will turn to social engineering tricks, like legitimate-looking Java Applets, which will on the other hand silently download the malicious payload of the attacker, once the [...]

By ddanchev | Also posted in Backdoors, Downloaders, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, malware, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (1)

Researchers intercept a client-side exploits serving malware campaign

January 25, 2012 – 12:14 pm

By Dancho Danchev Security researchers from Webroot have intercepted a currently active, client-side exploits-serving malicious campaign that has already managed to infect 18,544 computers across the globe, through the BlackHole web malware exploitation kit. More details:

By ddanchev | Also posted in Backdoors, Downloaders, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, malware, Passwords, rootkit, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (1)

Google announces new anti-malware features in Chrome

January 9, 2012 – 2:58 pm

by Dancho Danchev Google Inc. recently announced a new security feature in its Chrome browser. The feature will alert Chrome users every time they’re about to download a potentially malicious executable file. More on the feature:

By ddanchev | Also posted in malware | Comments (3)

Outdated Operating System? This BlackHole Exploit Kit has you in its sights

October 31, 2011 – 11:50 am

By Mike Johnson Several weeks back, I was presented with a group of snapshots from an active BlackHole Exploit Kit 1.2 Control Panel. As with other toolkits I’ve seen in the wild, this one has all the makings of some real bad medicine. The authors have yet again gone to the trouble of making this toolkit incredibly easy [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Also posted in Uncategorized, Firefox, Trojans, Search engines, Internet Explorer, rootkit | Comments (4)

Two Days in Vegas: Black Hat in Brief

August 5, 2011 – 7:04 pm

By Andrew Brandt The Black Hat briefings, held Wednesday and Thursday this week, once again brought together some of the best and brightest in the security industry to share knowledge about novel attacks and better defenses against old and new attacks. And, once again, there were some eye opening moments at the conference. Right from [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Android, Deep Knowledge, Enterprises, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Internet security industry, malware, Threat Research | Comments (1)

Five Summer Travel Security Tips

June 24, 2011 – 3:16 pm

By Andrew Brandt Ah, summer. Beaches, drinks with little umbrellas, 4th of July fireworks, baseball games, reading long cheesy novels in a lounge chair, teleconferencing with colleagues from your hotel room in Aruba. Wait, what? Yes, it’s true. It takes serious discipline to travel without schlepping along a laptop, smartphone, digital camera, MP3 player, portable [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Firefox, hijack search results, Internet Explorer, Mobile security, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (2)

Blackhat SEO of Google Images Links to Rogue AV

August 3, 2010 – 1:35 pm

By Andrew Brandt Yesterday, a few of the Threat Research folks and I had a little fun playing with a hack that had, for one day at least, pretty much decimated Google’s Image Search feature. One researcher, who stumbled into the attack purely by chance, found that a Google Images link to a map of [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Blackhat SEO, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Rogue Security Products, Safari, Search engines, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (11)
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