Angler’s unique obfuscation, ability to detect antivirus and virtual machines, encrypted payload and fileless infection have some calling it the most sophisticated exploit kit.
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How to keep your webcam safe from hackers
Last year webcam security became a high priority after an anonymous website began posting live streams of the world’s unprotected webcams. Here are 5 top tips to keep yours safe from the hackers.
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Flash Zero Days Dominate Exploit Landscape
The recent Flash zero-day vulnerabilities and exploits have uncovered the relatively quiet Hanjuan exploit kit, and further exposed the dangers of malvertising.
The utterly crazy story of the death threat hacker (involves a cat)
A cat leads to a notorious death threat hacker finally being caught and jailed in Japan.
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Latest Flash 0Day Under Attack; Possible Ties to Group Behind Angler EK
The third Adobe Flash Player zero day in two weeks is also currently under attack. Researchers at Trustwave found an exploit for it in the HanJuan exploit kit, which could be tied to the group behind the Angler kit.
1,800 Domains Overtaken by Flash Zero Day
Researchers at Cisco say that a Flash zero day exploit has compromised 1,800 domains, the majority of those during a 48-hour period last week.
New Wave of CTB-Locker/Critroni Ransomware Hitting Victims
There is a new wave of attacks delivering the CTB-Locker or Critroni crypto ransomware, arriving through spam messages with a variety of lures in several different countries. CTB-Locker is one of the newer variants in the crypto ransomware family, a kind of malware that encrypts victims’ hard drives and demands a relatively large payment in order […]
Female Skype Avatar Sinks Syria Opposition Fighters
A cyberespionage campaign pulled off by pro-Syrian hackers against Assad opposition fighters used social engineering to steal military planning documents.
Another Flash Zero Day Emerges
For the third time in the last couple of weeks, Adobe is dealing with a zero day vulnerability in Flash. The company is working on a patch for another Flash bug that is being exploited in drive-by download attacks. Adobe officials released an advisory Monday warning users that attackers are exploiting a new vulnerability in […]
Facebook porn scam infects 110k users in 48 hours
A new porn scam is spreading startlingly quickly through Facebook – one that has managed to spread malware to over 110,000 users in 48 hours, reports The Guardian.
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