AOL Advertising Network Abused to Distribute Malware

Security researchers have uncovered a malvertising campaign used to distribute malware to visitors of The Huffington Post website, as well as several other sites, through malicious advertisements served over the AOL advertising network. At the end of last year, Cyphort Labs, security firm...

Sweet Orange Exploit Kit Landing Page

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

Israeli Think Tank Compromised to Serve Sweet Orange Exploit Kit

The official website of a prominent Israel-based, Middle East foreign policy-focused think tank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs JCPA, has been compromised and abused by attackers to distribute malware. The Israeli think tank website JCPA – an independent research institute focusing on...

Israeli Think-Tank Site Serves Sweet Orange Exploit

Attackers have compromised the website of a prominent Israel-based, Middle East foreign policy-focused think tank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs JCPA. On Friday, researchers from Cyphort reported that the site was serving the Sweet Orange exploit kit via drive-by download. At the time o...

Sweet Orange Exploit Kit Offers Customers Higher Infection Rates

The newly emerging Sweet Orange Exploit Kit boasts a 10 to 25 percent infection rate and is promising to drive 150,000 unique visitors per day to the websites of its customers, according to Jeff Doty and Chris Larsen of Blue Coat Security. If the claims of Sweet Orange’s authors reflect reality, ...