Steganography, the technique of embedding hidden messages inside public files, has become very popular with exploit kit operators in 2016. Several security firms have detected multiple updates to ...

For at least five years the Sednit group has been relentlessly attacking various institutions, most notably in Eastern Europe. The group used several advanced pieces of malware for these targeted ...

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 ...

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 ...

The creators of a web-based attack tool called Angler Exploit Kit have added an exploit for a known vulnerability in Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plug-in to the tool’s arsenal. Exploit kits are ...

RIG exploit kit version 3.0 has been released and has already infected 1.25 million people at an average rate of 27,000 machines per day. A few months ago, the RIG exploit kit's future was in jeopardy ...