Exploit kit (EK) activity continues to surprise us as the weather cools, the leaves change, and we move into the fall of…
Tag: magnitude EK
Fileless malware: getting the lowdown on this insidious threat
Traditionally, malware attacks as we have always known them are files written to disk in one form or another that require…
Magniber ransomware: exclusively for South Koreans
The Magnitude exploit kit has been pretty consistent over the last few months, dropping the same payload—namely, the Cerber ransomware—and targeting…
Cerber ransomware delivered in format of a different order of Magnitude
As a follow up to our study into the Magnitude exploit kit and its gate (which we profiled in a previous…
Malvertising on The Pirate Bay drops ransomware
Popular torrent site The Pirate Bay was serving ransomware via a malvertising attack this week-end. The questionable advertiser was using a ‘pop-under’…
Magnitude EK activity at its highest via AdsTerra malvertising
Update (04/19): AdsTerra reached out on Twitter but we are still waiting for a point of contact to send information. AdsTerra…