Tag: Campaign

September 29, 2016

Security experts from Carbon Black have spotted a new Adware campaign leveraging on very sophisticated obfuscation techniques. The Adware campaign was used by crooks to spread ransomware and according to the malware researchers using tactics to similarities to the nation-state attack known as Operation […]

August 16, 2016

As recent events with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) being hacked solidify the fact that we cannot seem to secure anything connected to the Internet, one has to wonder if elections can also be hacked. The topic of “Hacking the […]

August 12, 2016

As the U.S. presidential election nears, Donald Trump is emerging as the clear winner — at least when it comes to having his name used in spam messages. Spammers and cyber attackers are using Trump’s name far more than Hillary […]

July 11, 2016

The 12-year-old Trojan NetTraveler has resurfaced in an APT group’s spear-phishing campaign against Russian and Eastern European targets. The campaign was announced by security research firm Proofpoint. Proofpoint director of threat intelligence Patrick Wheeler told SCMagazine.com the espionage campaign was […]

July 1, 2016

On the morning of 26th June, news of a phishing campaign hit the Israeli media. Thousands of Facebook users complained that they had been infected by a virus through their accounts after they received a message from a Facebook friend […]

June 7, 2016

Malvertising isn’t only used to infect users via drive-by downloads or to deceitfully push fake software updates. A campaign currently going on via the TrafficHolder adult ad platform leverages the promise of raunchy videos to lure people into ad fraud. […]

April 26, 2016

Over half of presidential campaign-related smartphone apps on Android devices are exposing users’ sensitive data, according to new research. Presidential campaigns — and the groups that support them — are increasingly using smartphone apps to try to attract voters. Yet […]

April 4, 2016

When it comes to malvertising, the Angler exploit kit is almost always the weapon of choice used by cyber criminals to push out malware onto their victims. As we’ve seen in many high profile cases recently, these attacks are also […]

March 1, 2016

We talk a lot about phishing and how dangerous it is. At times we feel like we may talk about it too much to where people simply say, “yeah, yeah. That will never happen to me, I am too smart […]

February 18, 2016

A couple of weeks ago we blogged about an attack against WordPress sites initially discovered by Denis Sinegubko over at Sucuri. The campaign is still going on but quickly evolved, as reported by DeepEnd Research, with a change in its URL […]

October 12, 2015

Malicious #rich text format (#rtf) documents are often used to spread #malware, and a recent #attack #campaign targeting the Israeli public sector has been using RTF files to inject the ##zeus trojan. Security researchers at Check Point have identified a […]