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Year-old flaw in popular WordPress plugin still actively exploited

Sucuri Security researchers have discovered yet another malicious campaign redirecting users to sites hosting exploits. As per usual, the attackers are mostly leveraging …

New AlphaCrypt ransomware delivered via Angler EK

“Yet another type of ransomware has been detected by malware researchers. Dubbed AlphaCrypt, it appropriates the look of TeslaCrypt, but operates similarly to Cryptowall …

100,000 web shops open to compromise as attackers exploit Magento bug

A critical vulnerability found in Magento, the most popular content management system for e-commerce sites, is being exploited by hackers to get their hands on users’ …

Russian APT group actively exploiting Flash, Windows 0-day flaws

APT28, believed to consist of Russian hackers, has been spotted wielding two zero-day exploits in the latest targeted attack aimed at an “international government entity …

Attackers actively downing Microsoft’s IIS web servers

Attackers are actively exploiting a DoS vulnerability (CVE-2015-1635) affecting Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) extensible web server, SANS ISC CTO …

Exploit for crashing Minecraft servers made public

After nearly two years of waiting for Mojang to fix a security vulnerability that can be used to crash Minecraft servers, programmer Ammar Askar has released a proof of …

Adobe fixes Flash Player zero-day exploited in the wild

Adobe released a new version of Flash Player (17.0.0.169) for Windows and Macintosh, and for Linux (11.2.202.457). These security updates fix a host of critical …

122 online forums compromised to redirect visitors to Fiesta exploit kit

Over a hundred forum websites have been compromised and injected with code that redirects users to sites hosting the Fiesta exploit kit, Cyphort researchers have found. These …

Large malvertising campaign linked to potentially compromised Google ad reseller

Dutch infosec firm Fox IT has spotted a lage scale malvertising campaign that seems to originate from Bulgarian Google ad reseller EngageLab. The first redirection has been …

WordPress sites compromised to redirect to Pirate Bay clone, exploit kit

Malwarebytes researchers have spotted another malware delivery campaign that uses compromised WordPress sites to redirect users to a page hosting an exploit kit. The total …

Xtube visitors redirected to exploit kit landing page

Popular adult site Xtube has been compromised to redirect visitors to sites hosting an exploit kit. “Unlike other attacks we have seen in recent times, this one does not …

Multifunctional Vawtrak malware now updated via favicons

The Vawtrak (aka Snifula) multifunctional malware has been around since mid-2013. Its information-stealing, backdoor and spying capabilities deservedly earned it the …

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