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)

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 | Posted in Firefox, Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, rootkit, Search engines, Trojans, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (4)
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