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GreenFlash Sundown exploit kit expands via large malvertising campaign

June 26, 2019 - Exploit kit activity has been relatively quiet for some time, with the occasional malvertising campaign reminding us that drive-by downloads are...

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Recent Flash Zero-Day Now Part of Exploit Kits

October 30, 2015 - The Adobe Flash Player continues to be the favourite browser plugin threat actors have been focusing on this year. The recent zero-day...

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Exploits and vulnerabilities | News | Threats

Sub-domain on SourceForge redirects to Flash Pack Exploit Kit

August 25, 2014 - We have talked about SourceForge before on this blog, in particular when they were associated with bundled software. This time around,...

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Exploit kits

Short bio An exploit kit is a toolkit designed to facilitate the exploitation of client-side vulnerabilities most commonly found in browsers...

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Exploits and vulnerabilities | News

Chrome targeted by Magnitude exploit kit

October 21, 2021 - Exploit kits (EK) are not as widespread as they used to be. One of the reasons is likely that most exploit...

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Awareness | News

Adobe Flash Player reaches end-of-life

January 6, 2021 - “What now? My farm is no longer working. Can you have a look, honey?” Like millions of other people my wife...

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News | Threats

Spelevo exploit kit debuts new social engineering trick

December 18, 2019 - 2019 has been a busy year for exploit kits, despite the fact that they haven’t been considered a potent threat vector...

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Exploits and vulnerabilities | News

Exploit kits: fall 2019 review

November 19, 2019 - Despite a slim browser market share, Internet Explorer is still being exploited in fall 2019 in a number of drive-by download...

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Apple | News

New iOS exploit checkm8 allows permanent compromise of iPhones

September 27, 2019 - UPDATE 9/27, 11:00am: Updated for the misconception that the bootrom was actually being modified. Apparently, the “permanent” only refers to the...

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News | Scams

New social engineering toolkit draws inspiration from previous web campaigns

September 3, 2019 - Some of the most common web threats we track have a social engineering component. Perhaps the more popular ones are those...

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