Results for 'flash exploit'
Underminer exploit kit improves in its latest iteration
December 21, 2018 - One of the most interesting exploit kits we track is also a bit of an elusive one, and as such does...
New Flash Player zero-day used against Russian facility
December 5, 2018 - For the past couple of years, Office documents have largely replaced exploit kits as the primary malware delivery vector, giving threat...
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...
Blocks for Flash and others coming to Office 365
June 1, 2018 - If you’re a user of Microsoft Office products such as Word and Excel, you’re probably aware that they’ve been used as...
Magnitude exploit kit switches to GandCrab ransomware
April 17, 2018 - The GandCrab ransomware is reaching far and wide via malspam, social engineering schemes, and exploit kit campaigns. On April 16, we...
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...
Hermes ransomware distributed to South Koreans via recent Flash zero-day
March 14, 2018 - This blog post was authored by @hasherezade, Jérôme Segura and Vasilios Hioureas. At the end of January, the South Korean Emergency...
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...
