Threat Spotlight: Spam Served With a Side of Dridex
This post was authored by Nick Biasini with contributions from Kevin Brooks. Overview The use of macro enabled word documents has exploded over the last year, a primary example payload being Dridex. Last week, Talos researchers identified another short lived spam campaign that
Threat Spotlight: Angler Lurking in the Domain Shadows
Overview Over the last several months Talos researchers have been monitoring a massive exploit kit campaign that is utilizing hijacked registrant accounts to create large amounts of subdomains for both initial redirection and exploitation. This campaign has been largely attribu
Threat Spotlight: “Kyle and Stan” Malvertising Network 9x Larger Than Expected
This post was authored by Armin Pelkmann. On September 8th, Cisco's Talos Security Intelligence & Research Group unveiled the existence of the "Kyle and Stan" Malvertisement Network. The network was responsible for placing malicious advertisements on big websit
Threat Spotlight: "Kyle and Stan" Malvertising Network Threatens Windows and Mac Users With Mutating Malware
This post was authored by Shaun Hurley, David McDaniel and Armin Pelkmann. Malware was discovered by Richard Harman. Update 2014-09-22: Updates on this threat can be found here Have you visited amazon.com, ads.yahoo.com, www.winrar.com, youtube.com, or any of the 74 domains lis