When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...

Law enforcement actions and a relative dearth of zero-day bugs appear to have contributed to a sharp decline in exploit kit activity in recent months. It's too soon, however, to say whether the ...

Towards the end of August 2018, FireEye identified a new exploit kit (EK) that was being served up as part of a malvertising campaign affecting users in Japan, Korea, the Middle East, Southern Europe, ...

Another threat group using an Android exploit kit, and a backdoor that targets both Android and Windows users, could easily slip under your reading radar. After all, there are just so many ...

A new report out by Sophos shows that in a post-Blackhole exploit kit world, Angler is gaining ground as a favorite attack tool among cybercriminals. "Since the demise of the Blackhole exploit kit in ...

The creators of a Web-based attack tool called Angler Exploit Kit have added an exploit for a known vulnerability in Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in to the tool’s arsenal. Exploit kits are ...

The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a reward of $2,500,000 for information leading to Belarusian national Volodymyr Kadariya (Владимир Кадария) for cybercrime activities ...

Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are ...

Attackers are using compromised websites to exploit a new and currently unpatched vulnerability in Flash Player, a malware researcher has reported. The new exploit was observed in drive-by-download ...

The United States Secret Service and United States Department of State are on the hunt for Belarusian national Volodymyr Iuriyovych Kadariya, who is wanted in connection with cybercrimes pertaining to ...

In a significant development impacting the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, the decentralized exchange SushiSwap (CRYPTO: SHUSHI) has reportedly fallen victim to a front-end exploit. Matthew ...

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