Network World

Defending against exploit kits

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Exploit kits comprised of ...
Computerworld

Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit

Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are ...
Homeland Security Today

Exploit Kits: The Silent Web Threat Affecting Billions

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 ...
InfoWorld

Hackers update malware tool kit with zero-day code

A new version of the IcePack hacker exploit tool kit has been released, security researchers warned Tuesday, and for the first time it includes attack code designed to exploit an unpatched, or ...
Homeland Security Today

A Deep Dive Into RIG Exploit Kit Delivering Grobios Trojan

Exploit kit activity has been on the decline since the latter half of 2016. However, we do still periodically observe significant developments in this space, and we have been observing interesting ...
Dark Reading

Angler Climbing To Top Of Exploit Heap

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 ...
Network World

The Neutrino exploit kit has a new way to detect security researchers

The developers of the Neutrino exploit kit have added a new feature intended to thwart security researchers from studying their attacks. The feature was discovered after Trustwave’s SpiderLabs ...
Dark Reading

Geek.com Site Hacked Via Exploit Kit

Geek.com, one of the Web's most popular technology sites, has been hacked and is serving malware to visitors, security researchers at Zscaler said yesterday. "It has come to our attention that many ...
Bleeping Computer

US offers $2.5 million reward for hacker linked to Angler Exploit Kit

The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a reward of $2,500,000 for information leading to Belarusian national Volodymyr Kadariya (Владимир Кадария) for cybercrime activities ...

VIPRE Security Group: AI-Native Malware, Deepfake Fraud-as-a-Service, and IoT Exploits to Drive Enterprise Risk in 2026 -- With Global AI Regulation Accelerating the Urgency of ...

AI-enabled cyberthreats as adversaries weaponised generative models to produce polymorphic malware, insider-style phishing, and increasingly convincing deepfake audio and video. Organisations ...
Computerworld

Hackers update malware tool kit, add first zero-day attack code

A new version of the IcePack hacker exploit tool kit has been released, security researchers warned today, and for the first time it includes attack code designed to exploit an unpatched, or zero-day, ...