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New Flash Player zero-day comes inside Office document

February 5, 2018 - Update (2018-02-06): Adobe has released a patch for this vulnerability. More information is available here. We tested this zero-day with a...

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Disdain exploit kit and a side of social engineering deliver Neutrino Bot

November 9, 2017 - Today we picked up new activity from an exploit kit that was first discovered back in August of this year. The...

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RIG exploit kit distributes Princess ransomware

August 31, 2017 - We have identified a new drive-by download campaign that distributes the Princess ransomware (AKA PrincessLocker), leveraging compromised websites and the RIG...

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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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Exploit kits: Fall 2016 review

November 9, 2016 - There have been interesting developments with exploit kits in the past few months to say the least, with the disappearance of...

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RIG exploit kit takes on large malvertising campaign

September 27, 2016 - There has been an interesting battle between two exploit kits in the past few months. Following the demise of the Angler...

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Exploit kit shakedown: RIG EK grabs Neutrino EK campaigns

August 16, 2016 - Exploit kits are going through some strange phases these days. Two major malware distribution campaigns, namely Pseudo Darkleech and EITTest traditionally...

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Neutrino EK: more Flash trickery

August 12, 2016 - A while back we wrote about the Neutrino exploit kit performing fingerprinting checks to weed out security researchers and honeypots attempting to catch...

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Malvertising campaign delivers two exploit kits, same payload

August 10, 2016 - Malvertising remains a favourite distribution platform for pushing out malware and we typically see certain exploit kits associated with particular campaigns. As...

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