M86 Security detected Web exploitation attacks using AJAX

M86 Security detected Web exploitation attacks using AJAX Security researchers from Web filtering vendor M86 Security have detected Web exploitation attacks that use AJAX to fragment the payload into small pieces of code that are harder to detect by antivirus programs and intrusion prevention...

M86 Researchers Discover Short-Lived IE 0-Day

Researchers from M86 claim to have discovered a 0-day exploit for Internet Explorer that is being used in the wild, according to Avri Schneider, an M86 researcher. Writing for an M86 blog yesterday, Schneider said that the company’s team of researchers discovered a piece of JavaScript on the page...

Siberia Exploit Kit Offers Service to Evade Anti-Malware Software

Attackers have been using legitimate online services such as VirusTotal and others to check their new pieces of malware against various security suites for some time now, but that’s become less and less effective recently. Now, the creators of some exploit kits are beginning to include less...

Researchers Cripple Pushdo Botnet

Researchers have made a huge dent in a major variant of the Pushdo botnet, virtually crippling the network by working with hosting providers to take down about two thirds of the command-and-control servers involved in the botnet. Pushdo for years has been one of the major producers of spam and...

Skype exploit, Skype-themed malicious spam campaigns detected

Researchers from M86 Security Labs are reporting on a recently detected malware campaign, using a working exploit targeting the fixed EasyBits Extras Manager Unspecified Vulnerability, reported in October, 2009. Read More. ZDNet...