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How Exploit Kit Operators are Misusing Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange

  • Posted on:September 21, 2015 at 5:48 pm
  • Posted in:Exploits, Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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By Brooks Li, Stanley Liu and Allen Wu Feedback from the Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ has allowed us to discover that the notorious Angler and Nuclear exploit kits have included the latest Flash vulnerability (CVE-2015-5560) in their regular update. This means that systems with Adobe Flash Player 18.0.0.209 and earlier are vulnerable; however users running the…

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Tags: diffie-hellmanencryptionexploit kitsman in the middle

Angler Exploit Kit Used to Find and Infect PoS Systems

  • Posted on:July 27, 2015 at 4:03 pm
  • Posted in:Malware, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Anthony Joe Melgarejo (Threat Response Engineer)
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An attack aiming to infect PoS systems was found using the Angler Exploit Kit to push a PoS reconnaissance Trojan,This Trojan, detected as TROJ_RECOLOAD.A, checks for multiple conditions in the infected system like if it is a PoS machine or part of a PoS network. It then proceeds to download specific malware depending on the…

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Tags: Angler Exploit Kitexploit kitsPOS malwarePoS threatsvulnerability

BEDEP: Backdoors Brought Into The Light By Flash Zero-Days

  • Posted on:March 9, 2015 at 4:30 am
  • Posted in:Malware
  • Author:
    Trend Micro
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The earlier Flash zero-days of the year have brought a new malware threat to the forefront: the BEDEP malware family. It has been the payload of two zero-day exploits in recent weeks: CVE-2015-0311 in late January, and CVE-2015-0313 in early February. While these attacks made BEDEP far more widespread, it was not exactly a new malware family…

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Tags: adobe flashbackdoorBEDEPexploit kitszero day

What’s New in Exploit Kits in 2014

  • Posted on:December 17, 2014 at 5:13 am
  • Posted in:Exploits
  • Author:
    Brooks Li (Threats Analyst)
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Around this time in 2013, the most commonly used exploit kit – the Blackhole Exploit Kit – was shut down after its creator, Paunch, was arrested by law enforcement. Since then, a variety of exploit kits has emerged and have been used by cybercriminals. The emergence of so many replacements has also meant that there…

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Tags: 2014exploit kits

Obfuscated Flash Files Make Their Mark in Exploit Kits

  • Posted on:November 24, 2014 at 10:32 am
  • Posted in:Exploits, Vulnerabilities
  • Author:
    Michael Du (Threats Analyst)
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In recent years, we noticed that more and more malicious Adobe Flash (.SWF) files are being incorporated into exploit kits like the Magnitude Exploit Kit, the Angler Exploit Kit, and the Sweet Orange Exploit Kit. However, we did some more digging and found out that the number of Flash files isn’t the only thing that has…

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Tags: adobe flashexploit kitsExploitsFlash
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  • Our security predictions for 2019 are based on our experts’ analysis of the progress of current and emerging technologies, user behavior, and market trends, and their impact on the threat landscape. We have categorized them according to the main areas that are likely to be affected, given the sprawling nature of the technological and sociopolitical changes under consideration.
    Read our security predictions for 2019.

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