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 | Posted in Backdoors, Downloaders, Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Keyloggers, malware, Passwords, rootkit, Threat Research, Trojans | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (2)

Everyone has a role in protecting a corporate infrastructure (Part 1)

November 30, 2011 – 11:21 am

By Jacques Erasmus This time of year, those of us in information security become wary of crafty criminals leveraging the winter holidays to prey on our employees’ lack of awareness online in a number of ways. All it takes is for one Trojan to infect a single PC in a company to put an entire [...]

By jerasmus11 | Posted in Enterprises, phishing, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, spam, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment

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 | Posted in Destructive behavior, Exploits, Internet Explorer, malware, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)

Non-executable malicious files and code – Thre@t Reply

October 7, 2011 – 9:36 am

By Nathan Collier .exe, PHP, HTML, and the list goes on. How many different kinds of files and code can potentially infect your PC? Webroot threat research analyst Nathan Collier explains a few of the the types of potentially dangerous files, other than the common executable (.exe) that can be found on a Windows PC [...]

By Lisa Bongiovanni | Posted in malware, Threat Research, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , | Comments (2)

Internet Misuse: Bandwidth Does Matter

December 14, 2010 – 1:23 pm

By Ian Moyse, EMEA Channel Director Recent studies demonstrate that upwards of 25% of Internet bandwidth in an office are consumed by employees misusing the internet. According to Gartner, the average growth of business email volume is 30% annually, with the average size of the email content growing in parallel. Add to this the growth [...]

By imoyse | Posted in Blackhat SEO, Botnet activity, Destructive behavior, Enterprises, Website owners | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

One Click, and the Exploit Kit’s Got You

September 18, 2009 – 10:37 am

By Andrew Brandt After all the brouhaha surrounding the NYTimes.com website hosting ads which spawned rogue antivirus Fakealerts last weekend, I spent a considerable amount of time looking at so-called exploit kits this week. These are packages, made up of custom made Web pages (typically coded in the PHP scripting language), which perform a linchpin [...]

By mguthrie09 | Posted in Blackhat SEO, Firefox, Keyloggers, Phishing Trojans, social engineering, Stupid malware tricks, Threat Research | Tags: , , , , , , , | Comments (4)
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