This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

This Week in Security News

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Below you’ll find a quick recap of topics followed by links to news articles and/or our blog posts providing additional insight. Be sure to check back...

Exploit Kit Attacks on the Rise as Astrum Emerges

While the cyber security industry noticed a reduction in exploit kit attacks during 2016 as well as early into 2017, these are still veritable threats that organizations must be aware of. Exploit kits typically follow a four-stage attack scenario, resulting in dangerous infections such as...

AdGholas malvertising thrives in the shadows of ransomware outbreaks

The latest wave of ransomware following the WannaCry outbreak has kept everyone very busy and been the topic of many conversations. In the meantime, other threat actors have been quite active and perhaps even enjoyed this complimentary diversion. This is certainly true for the most prolific...

Pseudo DarkLeech Exploit Kits Traffic Distribution System

Pseudo DarkLeech Traffic Distribution System TDS operates by silently redirecting the victim to a malicious web page, leading to infection by an exploit kit. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target...

Good Man Exploit Kits Traffic Distribution System

Good Man Traffic Distribution System TDS operates by silently redirecting the victim to a malicious web page, leading to infection by an exploit kit. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target...

UCL Ransomware Linked to AdGholas Malvertising Group

A ransomware attack that closed off access to personal and shared drives at University College London last week has been linked to a malvertising campaign spreading Mole, a variant of CryptoMix ransomware. Kafeine, a white-hat who works for Proofpoint and is known for his research into exploit...

The numeric tech support scam campaign

There are many different tech support scam TSS campaigns active at any given moment, the majority of them are fueled by malicious adverts the browser lockers, or bundled software the screen lockers. Something interesting happened recently, where legitimate - but hacked - websites would redirect t...

40,000 Subdomains Tied to RIG Exploit Kit Shut Down

Tens of thousands of illegally established subdomains used by criminals involved with the RIG Exploit Kit were recently taken down after an investigation revealed that hackers were phishing domain account credentials to set up these subdomains. Most of the subdomains used GoDaddy as the primary...

RIG Exploit Kit Landing Page URL

RIG exploit kit is a web exploit kit that operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim's computer. Successful infection will allow the attacker to download additional malware to the target...

Threat Round-up for May 19 - May 26

Today, Talos is publishing a glimpse into the most prevalent threats we've observed between May 19 and May 26. As with previous round-ups, this post isn't meant to be an in-depth analysis. Instead, this post will summarize the threats we've observed by highlighting key behavior characteristics,...

Terror Exploit Kit Evolves Into Larger Threat

The relatively new Terror exploit kit is bucking the downward trend in the EK market, and is steadily evolving into more of a threat. Researchers at Cisco Talos said Terror has abandoned an early strategy that included “carpet-bombing” a target’s browser to one that now uses exploits that precise...

Terror Evolved: Exploit Kit Matures

This post is authored by Holger Unterbrink and Emmanuel Tacheau Executive SummaryTalos is monitoring the major Exploit KitsEK on an ongoing basis. While investigating the changes we recently observed in the RIG EK campaigns, we identified another well known candidate: Terror Exploit Kit.Terror EK...

Terror Exploit Kit URL Pattern

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

Pawn Storm – A Look Into this Cyberespionage Actor Group

In April 2017 my monthly threat webinar focused on a cyberespionage group our Forward-Looking Threat Researcher, Feike Hacquebord, has been following for many years and recently published a report into the most recent two years of activities. In this post I want to focus on their tools and tactic...

Blackmoon Banking Trojan Using New Infection Technique

New clues have surfaced on how the Blackmoon banking Trojan is infecting its victims using a new framework to deliver the malware. “We noticed recent campaigns two weeks ago where Blackmoon had shifted its infection strategy and is now utilizing a unique and interesting technique,” said Hardik...

Terror Exploit Kit

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

KaiXin Exploit Kit

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

Neptune Exploit Kit

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

Suspicious Decimal IP Redirect

Many exploit kits, when connecting to HTTP servers for malware download, use a non-dotted decimal IP literal as the server name. Using such notation may be indicative of malware download...