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Drive-by download campaign targets Chinese websites, experiments with exploits

February 22, 2018 - During our web crawls we sometimes come across bizarre findings or patterns we haven’t seen before. This was the case with...

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What are exploits? (And why you should care)

March 29, 2017 - Exploits: they’re not your mama’s cyberthreats. At one point in the not-so-distant past, exploits were responsible for delivering 80 percent of...

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Malware taking advantage of Android OS exploits, again: Gooligan

December 1, 2016 - From what we can gather from Check Point’s blog post, Gooligan is an already well-known threat with a new name hinted...

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Adult site Xtube compromised, serving exploits

March 25, 2015 - Our systems have detected infections coming from popular adult site Xtube, ranked #780 in the US and with an estimated 25 million...

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Bogus Search Engine Leads to Exploits

February 27, 2015 - Here at Malwarebytes, we take a pretty strong stance against Adware in general, and Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) in particular. We...

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Deceiving cPanel ‘Account Suspended’ page serves exploits

February 26, 2015 - cPanel is one of the most popular web hosting control panels out there. It allows administrators to manage their website(s) using a...

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Email-borne exploits: the not-so innocuous killers targeting small business

May 7, 2014 - Update (05/21/2014): As previously suspected, other reports also support that CVE-2013-2729 is being used in malicious PDFs). Email remains a widely used infection...

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Web Exploits: a bright future ahead

January 2, 2013 - The majority of computers get infected from visiting a specially crafted webpage that exploits one or multiple software vulnerabilities. It could...

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A week in security (April 22 – April 28)

April 29, 2024 - A list of topics we covered in the week of April 22 to April 28 of 2024

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Microsoft’s April 2024 Patch Tuesday includes two actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities

April 11, 2024 - Microsoft has fixed 149 vulnerabilities, two of which are reportedly being exploited in the wild.

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