Angler Exploit Kit Attacks Silverlight Vulnerability

Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight have found their way into the dangerous Angler Exploit Kit a little more than a month after it was patched. French security researcher Kafeine said he was able to get independent confirmation from researchers at Kaspersky Lab that the exploit...

Here's How to Decrypt Hydracrypt & Umbrecrypt Ransomware Files

Over the last few years, we have seen several types of Ransomware malware that demand a whopping amount of money from users for the retrieval of their locked, compromised sensitive files. We have also witnessed the birth of decryption solution for some of the Ransomware like Cryptolocker partial,...

WordPress Compromises Lead to Teslacrypt Ransoware

Website operators running sites on the WordPress platform need to be aware of a massive string of infections that as of Thursday were poorly detected by security products. Researchers at Heimdal Security said the compromised sites redirect victims to other domains hosting the Nuclear Exploit Kit,...

Angler Exploit Kit Redirection

Angler Exploit Kit operates by delivering a malicious payload to the victim's computer. Successful exploitation could result in remote code execution on the target system once the malicious page is loaded...

Hackers Install Free SSL Certs from Let's Encrypt On Malicious Web Sites

Who else didn't see this coming? It was so obvious as I stressed earlier that the Let's Encrypt free HTTPS certificates would not just help legitimate website operators to encrypt its users' traffic, but also help criminals to bother innocent users with malware through secure sites. Let's Encrypt...

Oracle Java FTC Settlement

Oracle’s stewardship of Java has been scrutinized by the security community, which in 2013 languished through nearly a full year of targeted attacks exploiting zero days and other vulnerabilities in the platform. Since then, Oracle has improved the Java user experience by denying unsigned applets...

Angler EK latest CVE-2 0 1 5-8 4 4 6 Flash Exploit analysis-exploit warning-the black bar safety net

Background description In 1 2 on Adobe mad patch 7 of 8 vulnerability after a week, the abroad security researcher kafeine@kafeinebroke the Angler Exploit Kit started using this month to patch the CVE-2 0 1 5-8 4 4 6 vulnerability to attack. Our first time to follow up on the vulnerability of the...

Cybercrime News Results In Cybercrime Blues

INTRODUCTION FireEye Labs recently spotted a 2011 article on cybercrime from the news site theguardian.com that redirects users to the Angler Exploit Kit. Successful exploitation by Angler resulted in a malware infection for readers of the article. A spokesperson for the guardian.com responded th...

ALERT: This New Ransomware Steals Passwords Before Encrypting Files

You should be very careful while visiting websites on the Internet because you could be hit by a new upgrade to the World's worst Exploit Kit – Angler, which lets hackers develop and conduct their own drive-by attacks on visitors' computers with relative ease. Many poorly-secured websites are...

Angler Exploit Kit Spreading Cryptowall 4.0

As expected, it didn’t take long for one of the most popular exploit kits, Angler, to start spreading the latest iteration of Cryptowall ransomware. A drive-by campaign that uses a one-two punch to drop Cryptowall 4.0 has been observed in the wild this week, according to researchers at Heimdal...

Hackers are using Nuclear Exploit Kit to Spread Cryptowall 4.0 Ransomware

Beware Internet Users! Cryptowall 4.0 – the newest version of the world's worst Ransomware – has surfaced in the Nuclear exploit kit, one of the most potent exploit kits available in the underground market for hacking into computers. Ransomware threat has emerged as one of the biggest threats to...

Nuclear Exploit Kit Spreading Cryptowall 4.0 Ransomware

In short order, the newest version of Cryptowall has begun showing up in exploit kits. The SANS Internet Storm Center said on Tuesday that an attacker working off domains belonging to Chinese registrar BizCN has been moving the ransomware via the Nuclear Exploit Kit. SANS ISC handler and Rackspac...

NullHole Exploit Kit Landing Page

NullHole exploit kit is a web exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer. Remote attackers can infect users with NullHole xploit kit by enticing them to visit a malicious web page. Successful infection will allow the attacker to perform Remote Code Executio...

Spartan Exploit Kit Landing Page

Spartan exploit kit is a web exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer. Remote attackers can infect users with Spartan exploit kit by enticing them to visit a malicious web page. Successful infection will allow the attacker to perform Remote Code Execution...

Top-ranked Advertising Network Leads to Exploit Kit

Threat Overview The online advertisements that people see across a wide range of popular and lesser-known websites can lead to malware infections and other forms of compromise, sometimes without any user interaction whatsoever and without any indicators there is an issue. This emerging threat is...

Two New Strains of POS Malware, Cherry Picker, Abaddon, Surface

Point of sale malware has gotten more sophisticated as we inch closer to the two-year anniversary of the Target data breach. Now, two weeks from the biggest shopping day of the year, two new and different strains of point of sale malware have come to light, including one that’s gone largely...

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook Discuss how the a Campaign Using the Angler Exploit Kit was Disrupted and More of the Week's News

Mike Mimoso and Chris Brook discuss the week in news–including how researchers disrupted a $30M campaign using the Angler Exploit Kit, how another researcher was forced to pull a talk from a conference, and how a practical SHA-1 collision could be months away, not years. Download:...

THN Weekly RoundUp – 12 Hacking Stories You Don’t Want To Miss This Week

Here we are with our weekly roundup, showcasing last week's top cyber security threats and challenges. Just in case you missed any of them ICYMI, THN Weekly Round-Up helps you provide all important stories of last week in one shot. We advise you to read the full story just click ‘Read More’ becau...

Cisco Takes Down Ransomware Operation Generating $30 Million in Revenue For Hackers

This will blow the minds of every single cyber criminal group out there – Researchers have discovered a group of hackers that is making an estimated $30 Million a year from their online criminal operation. Yes, $30 MILLLLLLION annually. Researchers from cyber security firm Cisco announced that th...

Researchers Disrupt Angler Exploit Kit, $60 Million Ransomware Campaign

Researchers took a big step towards eradicating the Angler exploit kit, disrupting a large ransomware campaign connected to it that purportedly netted a hacker more than $30 million annually. According to a report published today, experts with Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Grou...