Security company Proofpoint has identified two new exploits coded into Purple Fox, an exploit kit that has evolved dramatically in the last year. The updates show that cyber-criminals are continuing ...

Hackers backed by North Korea’s government exploited a critical Chrome zero-day in an attempt to infect the computers of hundreds of people working in a wide range of industries, including the news ...

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 ...

North Korean state hackers have exploited a zero-day, remote code execution vulnerability in Google Chrome web browser for more than a month before a patch became available, in attacks targeting news ...

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 ...

Two exploits for Microsoft vulnerabilities have been added to the Purple Fox EK, showing ongoing development. The Purple Fox exploit kit (EK) has added two new exploits targeting critical- and ...

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 ...

Researchers from FireEye have found the first use in the wild of a new kind of injection technique that was first described in October. The technique is used by the RIG exploit kit to inject code that ...

The Cool exploit kit is pricier and packs more zero-day and attack functions than the infamous BlackHole kit, researchers say. It was thought to be launched in October by the BlackHole developers led ...

Orange, Calif. and London, UK - APRIL 28, 2010 - M86 Security, the global expert in Web and email threat protection, today announced the release of the latest security report from M86 Security Labs, ...

Some websites running the e-commerce platform Magento appear to have been infected with code that directs victims to the Neutrino exploit kit. It’s not exactly clear how the Magento sites were ...