Archie Exploit Kit Targets Adobe, Silverlight Vulnerabilities

18th September 2014

A relatively new exploit kit that borrows modules copied from the Metasploit Framework and exploits any older versions of Adobe Flash, Reader and, Silverlight the user may be using has begun to make the rounds. Jaime Blasco, the director of AlienVault Labs dug deeper into kit, known as Archie, on the company’s blog ...

Macro based malware is on the rise

18th September 2014

Malware authors have a rediscovered their love for Visual Basic, as the percentage of macro based malware rose from around 6% of all document malware in June to 28% in July, Sophos researchers have found.Gabor Szappanos, principal researcher at SophosLabs, explained in a paper published earlier this year the advantages of Visual Basic ...

470 million sites exist for 24 hours, 22% are malicious

9th September 2014

Blue Coat researchers analyzed more than 660 million unique hostnames requested by 75 million global users over a 90-day period. They found that 71 percent of the hostnames, or 470 million, were “One Day Wonders,” sites that appeared only for a single day.The largest generators of these sites include organizations that have a ...

Dodgy Norton update borks UNDEAD XP systems

9th September 2014

A dodgy Symantec update brought pain for those remaining Windows XP users who rely on Norton to defend their undead operating system free from viruses. In a statement, Symantec admitted the problem but downplayed its significance. This issue has now been resolved. The limited number of customers affected should run a Live Update to mitigate the ...

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