Results for 'fingerprinting'
Shakti Trojan: Document Thief
August 15, 2016 - While some ransomware (i.e. Chimera) give bogus threats about stealing and releasing private files, there are other malware families that in fact...
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...
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...
How to protect your IP address
July 22, 2016 - You might not know it, but every time you go on the Internet, from checking your social media to playing games...
Long lasting Magnitude EK malvertising campaign not affected by slowdown in EK activity
July 19, 2016 - We have been tracking a malvertising campaign distributing the Cerber ransomware linked to the actor behind the Magnitude exploit kit for months....
Neutrino EK picks up momentum in recent attacks
July 15, 2016 - While overall exploit kit activity has been somewhat low during the past weeks, we have noted some changes in Neutrino, the leading...
A week in security (Jul 03 – Jul 09)
July 11, 2016 - Last week, we discussed about another 419 scam, itemized 12 steps for secure online banking, differentiated two “intentional security holes”, spotlighted...
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...
A week in security (Jun 26 – Jul 02)
July 4, 2016 - Last week, we talked about a new 419 scam that our researchers found in the wild and pushed out a follow...
New wave of malvertising leverages latest Flash exploit
May 25, 2016 - A well known malvertising gang famous for its use of the fingerprinting technique and other evasion tricks to bypass security checks has been ramping...
