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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Threat analysts have uncovered yet a new campaign that uses the RIG Exploit Kit to deliver the RedLine stealer malware. Exploit kits (EKs) have dropped drastically in popularity as they targeted ...

I recently had the opportunity to talk Bob Bales, CEO, and Roger Thompson, CTO of Atlanta-based Exploit Prevention Labs. I must admit – the call left me feeling a bit uneasy. I learned from them just ...

Two separate campaigns from different threat actors targeted users with the same exploit kit for more than a month before the company fixed an RCE flaw found in February. North Korean threat actors ...

Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge users have been cautioned to watch out for fake updates that are in fact ransomware. The fake updates, pushed out by scammers using Magnitude exploit kits, mark a ...

Hackers backed by North Korea’s government exploited a critical Chrome zero-day in an attempt to infect the computers of hundreds of people working in a wide range of industries, including the news ...