Category Archives: Internet Explorer

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, Google Chrome, 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, Google Chrome, 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, Google Chrome, Keyloggers, malware, Passwords, rootkit, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (1)

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, Exploits, malware, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Comments (4)

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 Firefox, Google Chrome, rootkit, Search engines, Trojans, Uncategorized | 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, Google Chrome, 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, Google Chrome, hijack search results, Mobile security, Threat Research, Trojans | Comments (2)

Rogue of the Week: Windows Recovery

May 19, 2011 – 10:56 pm

By Andrew Brandt Word from the AMR group last week was that there weren’t many changes from the previous week; Many of the same rogue antivirus previously reported in this blog continue to plague the Internet. This week I decided to focus on a rogue that’s recently become a problem. It goes by the name [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Advanced Malware Removal, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (7)

ROTW: “Total Security” and Antivirus IS

April 25, 2011 – 9:00 am

By Brenden Vaughan and Andrew Brandt This week, our support and advanced malware removal (AMR) team did not have a lot of new data to report about rogue security products. The most commonly encountered infection continues to be one of the rogues we reported about last week. While we may refer to it as XP [...]

By mguthrie09 | Also posted in Advanced Malware Removal, hijack search results, mal-effects, Rogue Security Products, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Comments (2)
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