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CryptoWall 4.0 Spreading via Nuclear Exploit Kit

27

Nov

2015

The CryptoWall 4.0 ransomware is being spread via exploit kits, with the Nuclear exploit kit (EK) being the first major crimekit to infect machines with this type of malware, Rackspace security researcher Brad Duncan has discovered. In a blog post published by the SANS Internet Storm Center, Duncan explains that the “BizCN gate” actor has […]

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FlimKit coughs up more Malvertising

14

Jul

2013

FlimKit is a known exploit kit which takes advantage of Java Vulnerabilities in order to drop malicious content on the victim’s PC. Previous iterations of this Exploit Kit were known to be distributed through at least 1 popunder service. The EK itself is fairly straight forward. Like so many other kits, it begins with a […]

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CVE-2012-1876: Recent update to the Cool Exploit Kit landing page

08

May

2013

A recently debuted exploit kit (EK), called “Cool EK,” and detected by us with the name Exploit:JS/Coolex, has been known to include various exploits targeting Oracle JRE, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash Player to Windows kernel-mode drivers. If you’re unlucky enough to visit a webpage that hosts Cool EK, you might encounter all these exploits in […]

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