Results for 'magnitude exploit kit'
Exploit kits: winter 2019 review
February 12, 2019 - Active malvertising campaigns in December and the new year have kept exploit kit activity from hibernating in winter 2019. We mostly...
Exploit kits: fall 2018 review
October 24, 2018 - Exploit kit (EK) activity continues to surprise us as the weather cools, the leaves change, and we move into the fall of...
Exploit kits: summer 2018 review
August 7, 2018 - The uptick trend in cybercriminals using exploit kits that we first noticed in our spring 2018 report has continued into the summer....
Exploit kits: Spring 2018 review
June 12, 2018 - Since our last report on exploit kits, there have been some new developments with the wider adoption of the February Flash...
Exploit kits: Winter 2018 review
March 29, 2018 - In the past, we used to do a blog series on exploit kits where we would periodically check in on the...
GandCrab ransomware distributed by RIG and GrandSoft exploit kits (updated)
January 30, 2018 - This post was authored by Vasilios Hioueras and Jérôme Segura Update (2018-04-16): Magnitude EK has switched from Magniber to GandCrab. Update (2018-02-28): Major...
Magnitude EK actor goes for Bitcoin multiplier scam (updated)
November 6, 2017 - It is well known that hot commodities tend to attract scammers and online criminals. The continuous rise of Bitcoin over the...
Cerber ransomware delivered in format of a different order of Magnitude
August 9, 2017 - As a follow up to our study into the Magnitude exploit kit and its gate (which we profiled in a previous...
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...