Opera homepage spotted redirecting visitors to Blackhole kit
If you are an Opera user who hasn’t changed the browser homepage or has visited Opera’s Portal homepage (portal.opera.com) on Wednesday, you might want to check …
Adobe Reader 0-day exploit sold for $50,000
The good news is that the exploit costs $50,000 which limits the purchase of it to defense contractors, nation states and some criminal organizations that may be able to …
Life cycle and detection of an exploit kit
As the process of owning systems and dragging them into botnets becomes ever more commercialized, exploit kits have emerged as a favorite of attackers. Their point-click-own …
Can the Nuclear exploit kit dethrone Blackhole?
In a market dominated by the mega-popular Blackhole exploit kit (newly upgraded to version 2.0) and the somewhat less sought-after Eleonore and Phoenix exploit packs, can the …
New cybercrime monetization methods
AVG’s new report investigates a number of malicious software developments including the newly launched 2.0 version of the Blackhole Exploit Toolkit, the evolution in …
Massive WoW killing spree due to in-game exploit
What should have been a relaxing and afternoon in the virtual world of Azeroth turned to a veritable bloodbath as unknown hackers used a still unknown exploit to kill off …
“Watering hole” sites crucial to new cyber espionage campaign
RSA’s newly dubbed FirstWatch research team has recently presented their findings on a “water holing” campaign that they first spotted back in July. The …
Researchers bypass NFC access control with smartphone
A security flaw in most Mifare NFC contactless cards can easily be misused by hackers to modify the contents of the cards and get free rides on at least two U.S. transit …
iPhone buyers, beware of fake UPS notices
In view of the fact that deliveries of the extremely popular iPhone 5 will start on Friday, Websense’s director of security research Patrik Runald has issued a warning …
Microsoft promises fast fix for IE zero-day as new attacks are discovered
The problem of the remotely-exploitable IE zero-day memory-corruption vulnerability that is being misused in current attacks has reached a critical enough level for Microsoft …
The various spam campaigns leading to Blackhole
At any given time, there is a considerable number of email spam campaigns that ultimately lead users to pages hosting exploit kits – more often then not the extremely …
Blackhole 2.0 is out with new exploits and same price
A new version of BlackHole, one of the most popular exploit kits out there, has been made available by its creator, who has supposedly rewritten it from scratch. BlackHole 2.0 …