- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- August 30th, 2016
Mystery Solved: Angler Exploit Kit Was Developed by Now-Arrested Lurk Gang
Angler EK was a small part of the huge Lurk infrastructure
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 10th, 2016
There Is a Connection Between the Lurk Arrests, Angler, and the Necurs Botnet
Email address found used for registering C&C domain names for Lurk, Angler, and Necurs infrastructure
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 27th, 2016
Nuclear Exploit Kit Shuts Down As Researchers Probe Its Infrastructure
Nuclear EK shut down a month before the Angler EK
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 11th, 2016
All Clues Point to the Death of the Angler Exploit Kit
Angler EK spotted online for the last time on June 7
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 6th, 2016
Angler Exploit Kit Finds a Method to Escape Microsoft's EMET Security Toolkit
Method works using Flash and Silverlight exploits
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 10th, 2016
Blogger, CBS, PerezHilton Hit by Malvertising Campaigns
Malvertising campaigns intensified last week
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- April 20th, 2016
Exploit Kit Hiding as Social Buttons on Hacked WordPress and Joomla Sites
Clever domain names help crooks fool webmasters
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 30th, 2016
Angler Accounted for More than Half of Active Exploit Kit Installs in Q4 2015
Malicious domains near record-level numbers
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 15th, 2016
Malvertising Campaign Hits MSN, NYT, BBC, AOL, NFL Websites
Millions of users exposed to malicious ads
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 1st, 2016
Whack-A-Mole Game Continues As Malvertising Adds Support for Fingerprinting
Malvertising becomes even harder to detect
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 1st, 2016
Constant Updates Keep Angler EK More Efficient than Ever
Angler adds new tricks to stay ahead of security researchers
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 24th, 2016
Hackers Wasted Their Time Adding a Silverlight Exploit to the Angler Exploit Kit
Angler Exploit Kit now supports the CVE-2016-0034 bug
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 12th, 2015
Malware Spread via The Guardian's Article on Cybercrime
How ironic, apparently, cybercrime is truly out of control
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- December 6th, 2015
Infostealers, Exploit Kits & Ransomware, Just Your Typical Malware Campaign
A look inside your typical malware campaign
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 18th, 2015
Exploit Kit Activity Goes Up 75 Percent
Angler, Magnitude, Neutrino & Nuclear, the most popular EKs
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- October 7th, 2015
Major Ransomware Campaign Disrupted, Attackers Lose Potential Revenues of $34M
This campaign accounted for 50% of all the ransomware delivered online through the Angler exploit kit
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2015
Angler Exploit Kit Used in Malvertising Campaign That Reached 10 Million Users in 10 Days
A possible continuation of a campaign started in June