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Welcome Spelevo: New exploit kit full of old tricks

June 27, 2019 • 1 min read

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Multiple Cobalt Personality Disorder

Despite the notion that modern cybersecurity protocols have stopped email-based attacks, email continues to be one of the primary attack vectors for malicious actors — both for widespread and targeted...

July 31, 2018 • 1 min read

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Threat Spotlight: Sundown Matures

This post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Edmund Brumaghin and Alex Chiu The last time Talos discussed Sundown it was an exploit kit in transition. Several of the large exploit kits had left the landscape and a couple of strong

March 31, 2017 • 1 min read

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Take the RIG Pill: Down the Rabbit Hole

Executive Summary Talos is monitoring the big notorious Exploit Kits(EK) on an ongoing basis. Since Angler disappeared a few month ago, RIG is one EK which seems to be trying to fill the gap Angler has left. We see an ongoing development on RIG. This

November 3, 2016 • 1 min read

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Sundown EK: You Better Take Care

This post was authored by Nick Biasini Over the last six months the exploit kit landscape has seen some major changes. These changes began with Nuclear ceasing operations in April/May and arrests in Russia coinciding with the end of Angler in June.

October 31, 2016 • 1 min read

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Talos ShadowGate Take Down: Global Malvertising Campaign Thwarted

Yet another example of how organizations work together to stop threats affecting users around the globe.

September 1, 2016 • 1 min read

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Connecting the Dots Reveals Crimeware Shake-up

This Post Authored by Nick Biasini For a couple of weeks in June the threat landscape was changed. Several high profile threats fell off the landscape, causing a shake-up that hadn’t been seen before. For a period of three weeks the internet

July 7, 2016 • 1 min read

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Angler Catches Victims Using Phish as Bait

This post authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Erick Galinkin. Exploit kits have been a recurring threat that we’ve discussed here on this blog as a method of driving users to maliciousness. Users typically encounter exploit kit

May 3, 2016 • 1 min read

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Threat Spotlight: Spin to Win…Malware

This post was authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Tom Schoellhammer and Emmanuel Tacheau The threat landscape is ever changing and adversaries are always working to find more efficient ways to compromise users. One of the many ways that

May 3, 2016 • 1 min read

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