Top Exploit Kits Round Up | February Edition

Exploits | Threat analysis

Citadel: a cyber-criminal’s ultimate weapon?

November 5, 2012 - In old times, a citadel was a fortress used as the last line of defense. For cyber criminals it is a powerful and state-of-the-art toolkit to both distribute malware and manage infected computers (bots). Citadel is an offspring of the (too) popular Zeus crimekit whose main goal is to steal banking credentials by capturing keystrokes...

Exploits | Threat analysis

Web Exploits: a bright future ahead

January 2, 2013 - The majority of computers get infected from visiting a specially crafted webpage that exploits one or multiple software vulnerabilities. It could be by clicking a link within an email or simply browsing the net, and it happens silently without any user interaction whatsoever. Vulnerabilities are flaws that exist in various programs and that allow someone to...

Exploits | Threat analysis

Zero-Day Java vulnerability wreaks havoc on computers worldwide

January 14, 2013 - Update (1/14/2013) Oracle has issued an emergency patch to be shipped with version 7 update 11. While we are pleased to see a quick turnaround time, we stand by our initial recommendations to disable Java in your browser. This is still the most exploited piece of software and whether it is patched or not still unnecessarily puts you...

Exploits | Threat analysis

New Exploit Kit, Ransomware and AV evasion

March 14, 2013 - Ransomware is still going strong and infecting countless PCs. We happened to stumble upon an interesting sample part of the Urausy family which bypassed detection on all major antivirus products for almost an entire day before slowly being detected. In this post we will give some information on its background (where it came from) and...

Exploits | Threat analysis

Redkit Exploit Kit does the splits

April 5, 2013 - Exploit Kit authors must really love Java . Not only is it ripe with vulnerabilities but its own language provides a great platform to write and deliver malware in different ways. We are used to seeing encrypted payloads (XOR, AES encryption), applets containing both the exploit itself and the binary payload. Today we will talk...