In the months since our last spring review, there has been some interesting activity from several exploit kits. While the playing…
Tag: exploit kits
Hidden Bee: Let’s go down the rabbit hole
Some time ago, we discussed the interesting malware, Hidden Bee. It is a Chinese miner, composed of userland components, as well…
Exploit kits: spring 2019 review
Exploit kit activity remains fairly unchanged since our last winter review in terms of active distribution campaigns. But this spring edition…
Threats target financial institutions, fintech, and cryptocurrencies
With news of a malware attack on accounting firm Wolters Kluwer causing a “quiet panic” in the accounting world this week,…
A week in security (February 11 – 17)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs we discussed the return of the Sextortion Bitcoin scams, we gave you an early overview of…
Exploit kits: winter 2019 review
Active malvertising campaigns in December and the new year have kept exploit kit activity from hibernating in winter 2019. We mostly…
Interview with a malware hunter: Jérôme Segura
In our series “Interview with a malware hunter,” our feature role today goes to Jérôme Segura, Malwarebytes’ Head of Threat Intelligence…
Improved Fallout EK comes back after short hiatus
[Edit 2019-01-24] Fallout EK introduces a new dropper to facilitate the final payload retrieval. This update replaces the plain MZ we…
Underminer exploit kit improves in its latest iteration
One of the most interesting exploit kits we track is also a bit of an elusive one, and as such does…
Exploit kits: fall 2018 review
Exploit kit (EK) activity continues to surprise us as the weather cools, the leaves change, and we move into the fall of…