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A Week in Security (Jan 03 – Jan 09)

January 11, 2016 - Last week, we sent our readers a survey that they may want to check out and answer. We created it in...

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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...

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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)....

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London (and Dublin) calling – on a mission in the UK and Ireland

November 18, 2015 - If there’s one place where the impact of cybercrime is being felt recently, it’s in the UK. The recent TalkTalk hack has dominated...

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Another Hacking Team Flash Player 0day Uncovered (UPDATED)

July 11, 2015 - Update: 07/15 7 As reported by Kafeine, Magnitude EK is now using this zero-day. Update: 07/14 7 As reported by brooks_li, RIG EK...

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Recent Flash Player 0-day Exploit Goes Mainstream

June 28, 2015 - Security firm FireEye released a report on June 23 about targeted attacks leveraging a Flash Player zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2015-3113) in Adobe Flash Player...

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Elusive HanJuan EK Drops New Tinba Version (updated)

June 24, 2015 - Update 07/03/15: AdFly contacted us and we are publishing their statement below: We are sorry for the inconvenience but this is...

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A Week in Security (Jun 07 – Jun 13)

June 15, 2015 - Last week, we published a timely scam, a malvertising campaign, the final section of the 2-part piece of a certain exploit kit, and a...

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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...

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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...

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