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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 […]