Active malvertising campaigns in December and the new year have kept exploit kit activity from hibernating in winter 2019. We mostly…
Tag: sundown
A week in security (Jan 01 – Jan 07)
Last week, we pushed out an in-depth analysis of a Sundown exploit kit campaign dropping a miner for the cryptocurrency, Monero….
Exploit kits: Fall 2016 review
There have been interesting developments with exploit kits in the past few months to say the least, with the disappearance of…
A week in security (Oct 16 – Oct 22)
Last week, we made two announcements: first, Malwarebytes teams up with the Breast Cancer Fund for Breast Cancer Awareness Month and, second, Malwarebytes…
Yet another Sundown EK variant? (updated)
Update (11/6/2016): TrendLabs recently published (11/04/2016) their own research on this new Sundown EK, which turns out to be a new exploit kit…
New-looking Sundown EK drops Smoke Loader, Kronos banker
As we keep a tab on exploit kits, today we are looking at some changes with Sundown EK. Nowhere near as…
Malvertising campaign delivers two exploit kits, same payload
Malvertising remains a favourite distribution platform for pushing out malware and we typically see certain exploit kits associated with particular campaigns. As…
A look at the Angler-less exploit kit scene
For those tracking exploit kits, the disappearance of the Angler exploit kit last week was a major event. While a lot of…