CISA and other federal agencies were joined by the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Defense Security Agency of the Republic…
Tag: EK
Spelevo exploit kit debuts new social engineering trick
2019 has been a busy year for exploit kits, despite the fact that they haven’t been considered a potent threat vector…
Exploit kits: fall 2019 review
Despite a slim browser market share, Internet Explorer is still being exploited in fall 2019 in a number of drive-by download…
Say hello to Lord Exploit Kit
Just as we had wrapped up our summer review of exploit kits, a new player entered the scene. Lord EK, as…
Exploit kits: summer 2019 review
In the months since our last spring review, there has been some interesting activity from several exploit kits. While the playing…
GreenFlash Sundown exploit kit expands via large malvertising campaign
Exploit kit activity has been relatively quiet for some time, with the occasional malvertising campaign reminding us that drive-by downloads are…
Exploit kits: winter 2019 review
Active malvertising campaigns in December and the new year have kept exploit kit activity from hibernating in winter 2019. We mostly…
Improved Fallout EK comes back after short hiatus
[Edit 2019-01-24] Fallout EK introduces a new dropper to facilitate the final payload retrieval. This update replaces the plain MZ we…
Underminer exploit kit improves in its latest iteration
One of the most interesting exploit kits we track is also a bit of an elusive one, and as such does…
Exploit kits: fall 2018 review
Exploit kit (EK) activity continues to surprise us as the weather cools, the leaves change, and we move into the fall of…