Now in the custody of the FBI, a gang calling itself the Hooligans Motorcycle Gang, had launched an operation in South California whereby they stole over a hundred Jeep Wranglers and moved them to Mexico where they would either sell the entire jeep or sell its parts. The Hooligans Motorcycle Club: According to the indictment issued […]
The FBI has arrested members of a motorcycle gang accused to have hacked and stolen over 150 Jeep Wranglers from Southern California, which they later crossed the border into Mexico to have stripped down for parts. Authorities unsealed an indictment yesterday in a press conference held in San Diego. According to details included in the […]
Email address found used for registering C&C domain names for Lurk, Angler, and Necurs infrastructure. As many infosec professionals have initially suspected, there is a connection between the arrests made by Russian police at the end of May and the ulterior downfall of the Angler Exploit Kit infrastructure. According to Cisco’s Talos team, these connections […]
Compromised websites remain one of the surefire ways to redirect innocent visitors to exploit kits. During the past few days we’ve started seeing an unusual route to the infamous Angler EK, notorious for leveraging hacked WordPress and Joomla CMSs. This wasn’t via the common EITest or Darkleech paths nor was it a direct injection of the landing URL […]
An Indian restaurant recommendation site contains injected code which redirects users to the Angler EK, which in turn drops TeslaCrypt (Trojan.Cryptolocker.N) on the computer. A popular Indian restaurant recommendation site called Burrp was compromised to redirect users to the Angler exploit kit (EK) in order to deliver the TeslaCrypt ransomware (detected as Trojan.Cryptolocker.N). The attack […]
The security researcher Kafeine confirmed that the authors of the Angler EK have integrated the exploit for a recently patched Microsoft Silverlight vulnerability. Ransomware is becoming one of the most dreaded cyber threats for netizens, security experts noticed a surge in the number of cyber attacks aimed to spread malware like Cryptowall and TeslaCrypt. Exploit kits like the Nuclear EK […]
Exploits for a vulnerability in Microsoft Silverlight have found their way into the dangerous Angler Exploit Kit a little more than a month after it was patched. French security researcher Kafeine said he was able to get independent confirmation from researchers at Kaspersky Lab that the exploit targeted CVE-2016-0034, which was fixed by Microsoft in […]
Angler Exploit Kit is not going anywhere, it’s here to stay and already compromised 90,000 websites. The Angler Exploit Kit (AEK) is increasing its influence over the internet and according to an analysis from Palo Alto Networks more than 90,000 websites have been compromised by AEK, out of which 30 are listed among the Alexa top 100,000. Evidently, […]
A security researcher discovered a new variant of the Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player flaw. The French security researcher “Kafeine” has discovered a new variant of the popular Angler exploit kit that includes the exploit code for a recently patched Adobe Flash Player vulnerability (CVE-2015-8446). Kafeine reported […]
Short Bytes: Adobe Flash Player continues to remain the favorite target of the cyber attackers. The recent zero-day exploits that were earlier used in targeted attacks, are now a part of some of the most popular exploit kits making the dangers more obvious. The latest Adobe Flash zero-day exploit has found its place in some […]
A massive uptick in malvertising has taken place over the last few years and is becoming so popular that it may become the top technique used for drive by attacks, according to Cyphort Labs’ The Rise of Malvertising report. The 325% spike can be attributed to a combination of more zero-day exploits and new technology […]