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A brand new ransomware family currently being distributed through the Magnitude exploit kit appears to be targeting South Korean users exclusively, security researchers have discovered. Dubbed Magniber, the threat checks the language of the compromised systems and only fully executes on machines featuring the locale identifier string 0x0412, which is the identifier for Korean, Trend […]

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During the past few days we have witnessed an increase in the number of malvertising incidents involving the Magnitude exploit kit. The last time we blogged about this was in mid November 2015 and we attributed the event to the fact that Magnitude EK had just integrated a newer Flash exploit (CVE-2015-7645). We fast-forward a few months and […]

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Security researchers took a close look at the Magnitude Exploit Kit (EK), a malicious package accounting for a large portion of the exploit kit market share and famous for being used to infect high-profile websites such as Yahoo Ad Network and PHP.net. Trustwave managed to learn about the inner workings of the threat after examining […]

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