Fake Payroll Confirmation Email Leads to Black Hole Exploit Kit

Criminal hackers launched an attack campaign earlier this week in which they sent a slew of emails purporting to come from the financial software developer Intuit. The emails contained links that led to sites hosting the Blackhole exploit kit in an apparent attempt to infect the machines of...

Apple update removes Java plugin from OS X browsers

Apple has discontinued its own Java plugin, issuing an 'update' that removes it from MacOS and encourages users to instead download Oracle's version of the software. Its another step by Apple towards making OS X safer on the web. Mac users may have noticed that Java-based websites are displaying ...

Deluge of Election-Related Spam, Threats Begins

It was only a matter of time before the inevitable wave of malicious, election-tinged spam began to rain down upon internet users. In the wake of last week’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, it appears the floodgates have opened. According to ...

Fake ADP and FDIC Notifications Leading Users to Blackhole Exploit Kit

With the latest iteration of the Blackhole Exploit Kit hitting the web this week, attackers are going to great lengths to spread around links to get unsuspecting victims to click through to the first version of the kit. E-mail notifications claiming to come from Microsoft Exchange, ADP, the Feder...

BlackHole Exploit Kit 2.0 released with more latest Exploits

According to release announcement on Pastebin by unknown developers in a Russian-language BlackHole Exploit Kit 2.0 released with more latest Exploits. BlackHole is one of the most dominant exploit toolkits currently available in the underground market. It enables attackers to exploit security...

Black Hole Exploit Kit 2.0 Released

The developer behind the notorious Black Hole exploit kit has released a new version of the software, adding in several new features designed to prevent security researchers from getting access to new exploits or reverse-engineering the kit’s inner workings. Conveniently, the pricing for Black Ho...

Researchers Identify Second New Java Bug

Researchers who have dug into the exploit for the new Java CVE-1012-4681 vulnerability found that there are actually two previously unknown security bugs in Java 7 and that the exploit, which has been tied to attackers in China, is using both of them to get full control of vulnerable machines. Th...

Java 7 Applet Remote Code Execution

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Java Runtime Environment JRE component in Oracle Java SE 7 Update 6 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted applet that bypasses SecurityManager restrictions by 1 using com.sun.beans.finder.ClassFinder.findClass and leveraging an...

New Report Beckons 'Cyber Arms Race,' Explains Black Hole Kit

Espionage has gone digital and we’re just now seeing the beginnings of what will prove to be a “cyber arms race,” according to Mikko Hypponen, Chief Research Officer for the F-Secure, the Finnish security firm. Hypponen laid out his thoughts and recapped the last seven months in threats in the...

Blackhole Exploit Kit Adobe Flash Player

A buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in Adobe Flash Player. The vulnerability is due to insufficient boundary checking in Adobe Flash Player while handling specially crafted .swf files. A remote attacker can use the Blackhole Exploit Kit to detect this vulnerability and send speciall...

Fake AT&T Emails Using Blackhole Exploit Kit to Install Malware

For the last few weeks there have been a series of quite authentic-looking phishing emails making the rounds, purporting to come from AT&T and informing the recipient that their bill is ready to view. The emails look nearly identical to a real bill and researchers say that users who fall for the...

Black Hole Exploit Kit Targeting Java CVE-2012-1723 Flaw

A new fork of the Black Hole exploit kit is making quick work of a recently patched Java vulnerability and security researchers say that the attackers are registering new sites quickly to exploit users with vulnerable browsers. The CVE-2012-1723 Java vulnerability that the Black Hole exploit kit ...

MSXML Exploit Surfaces in Black Hole Kit

Attackers really like exploit kits because they offer users the ease of point-and-click exploitation, lots of potential targets and don’t require a huge amount of technical knowledge to use. Attackers also enjoy Microsoft vulnerabilities, especially unpatched ones, because of the massive installe...

BlackHole Exploit Kit Gets New Domain-Generation Algorithm

Nothing is more frustrating than spending days or weeks compromising dozens of Web sites and setting up your network of malicious redirects and then finding out that someone has screwed it all up by taking down one of your infected sites. Luckily, the crew behind the BlackHole exploit kit has...

Updated Blackhole Exploit Kit Uses Random Domain Generation

An updated version of the Blackhole Exploit Kit appears to now offer an emerging technique to boost infection and redirection rates: a pseudo-random domain generator. The automation feature was discussed this week in a blog post by Symantec security researcher Nick Johnston, in which he outlined...

New Exploit Kit RedKit Discovered in Wild

A new exploit kit hit the scene recently, and according to Arseny Levin of Spiderlabs, the RedKit exploit kit contains an API that generates new host-site URLs every hour. The authors of the kit haven’t named it, so Levin and Spiderlabs simply chose to call it RedKit in reference to its color...

RedKit Exploit Kit : New web malware exploitation pack

RedKit Exploit Kit : New web malware exploitation pack Trustwave researchers have spotted a new exploit kit called "RedKit Exploit Kit" that being used in the wild is aiming to enter a market that is practically monopolized by the widely famous BlackHole and Phoenix exploit kits. In actual, The n...

US Airways Spam Redirects to Blackhole, Zeus Infection

Cybercriminals are targeting US Airways customers with malicious spam emails containing a link that, once clicked, initiates a series of redirects, eventually leading users to a domain hosting the Blackhole exploit kit. The fraudulent email presents itself as a check-in notification from US...

New Java Exploits boosts BlackHole exploit kit

New Java Exploits boosts BlackHole exploit kit A widely disseminated exploit kit popular with hackers has been updated to take advantage of a recently discovered Java vulnerability. Researchers at Microsoft reported last week that it had observed this vulnerability being exploited in the wild. Th...

Leak Site Cryptome.org Hacked, Running Blackhole Exploit Kit

The Web site of information leak site Cryptome was compromised earlier this month and infected with the Blackhole exploit kit, according to documents posted on the site. The site, which posts a wide range of open source intelligence and leaked documents, was compromised on February 8 and had its...