The HookAds malvertising campaign has been active lately and redirecting visitors to the Fallout Exploit Kit. Once the kit is activated, it will attempt to exploit known vulnerabilities in Windows to ...

Here are the exploit kits to watch for over the next three to six months. Over the past six months, the roar of exploit kits has quieted to a whimper. But that doesn’t mean exploit kit threats are ...

The Fallout Exploit has been distributing the GandCrab Ransomware for the past few weeks, but has now switched its payload to the Kraken Cryptor Ransomware. Kraken Cryptor is a Ransomware as a Service ...

The Neutrino exploit kit has seized a former zero-day vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer into its arsenal. On May 10, Microsoft released a batch of security updates as part of its regular Patch ...

Researchers who study exploit kits are reporting that two major kits, Angler and Nuclear, may no longer be available. Criminal hackers are fickle about their attack vectors. You need to look no ...

Exploit kits of cybercrime tools fell into a big slump in the first half of this year after Russian authorities nabbed the alleged creator of the popular Blackhole kit, but users aren’t necessarily ...

Law enforcement actions and a relative dearth of zero-day bugs appear to have contributed to a sharp decline in exploit kit activity in recent months. It's too soon, however, to say whether the ...

A new report out by Sophos shows that in a post-Blackhole exploit kit world, Angler is gaining ground as a favorite attack tool among cybercriminals. "Since the demise of the Blackhole exploit kit in ...

Infosecurity understands that the kit was recently uploaded to free file-sharing services, and the download link then posted on Hacker News. The BlackHole exploit kit is a relatively new hacker ...

When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...

ESET researchers have discovered a new exploit kit spreading via malicious ads on a number of reputable news websites, each with millions of visitors daily. Since at least the beginning of October ...

Update (December 15th): Further research and comparison of our findings with those of our colleagues from Proofpoint and Trend Micro brought us to the conclusion that the malvertising campaign we ...