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A Fresh Example of a Blackhole Spam

15

Jun

2012

My spam honeypots yesterday yielded a nice example of a spam attack being used to lure people to servers hosting the infamous Blackhole exploit kit, which we've blogged about several times in the last six months or so. The spam arrived the evening before. Here's how it looked: Clicking on one of the links took […]

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PHP-CGI Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

08

May

2012

When the PHP-CGI vulnerability was disclosed, we knew it would be just a matter of days before it started to be exploited in the wild. Well, it didn’t take long. Since the weekend, we started to see scanners looking for that vulnerability on our servers and honeypots. And now we are seeing sites getting compromised […]

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Expanding Black Holes

08

Jan

2012

The big malware story for me over the last month is probably the surge in exploit kit sites hosting the “Blackhole” kit. (BTW, nice write-up last month on the kit on Imperva’s blog.) Bad Guys like exploit kits because they are a convenient way to leverage the work of multiple specialists — it’s nice to […]

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