Results for 'magnitude exploit kit'
A week in security (Jul 17 – Jul 23)
July 25, 2016 - Last week, we spotted a phishing scam that targeted Wikileak’s Twitter account; gave an account why tech support scammers are still...
Malvertising slowing down, but not out
July 4, 2016 - We have not seen very many large scale malvertising attacks following the mysterious disappearance of the powerful Angler EK. The ones we...
Malvertising on The Pirate Bay drops ransomware
April 26, 2016 - Popular torrent site The Pirate Bay was serving ransomware via a malvertising attack this week-end. The questionable advertiser was using a ‘pop-under’...
A Week in Security (Mar 27 – Apr 02)
April 4, 2016 - Last week, we looked back on misleading advertising, gave an overview of what fileless infection is, alerted Steam users of a...
Malvertising Campaign via Pop-under Ads Sends CryptoWall 4
January 7, 2016 - We have caught a new malvertising campaign on the PopAds network launching the Magnitude exploit kit via pop-under ads. A pop-under is an ad...
Malware Crypters – the Deceptive First Layer
December 2, 2015 - Recently, two suspects were arrested for selling Cryptex Reborn and other FUD tools (helping to install malware in a Fully UnDetectable way)....
Popcash Malvertising Leads to CryptoWall
June 11, 2015 - The online advertising industry is a very lucrative business and so it comes as no big surprise that cyber-criminals have taken...
Malvertising Strikes on Adult Site xHamster Again
April 27, 2015 - We identified a malvertising campaign taking place on adult site xHamster (Alexa rank #68, est. 514 million visitors/month according to SimilarWeb) that abused ad...
A week in security (Oct 18 – Oct 24)
October 25, 2021 - Last week on Malwarebytes Labs Other cybersecurity news Stay safe, everyone!
Fileless malware: getting the lowdown on this insidious threat
August 29, 2018 - Traditionally, malware attacks as we have always known them are files written to disk in one form or another that require...
