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The number of attacks using flaws in software increased by a quarter, to over 702 million attempts last year, according to a new report by Kaspersky Lab.In 2016, there were 702,026,084 attempts to launch an exploit, up by 24.54 percent on 2015, according to the report which also showed that 347,966 ...

About 4,000 WordPress websites have been infected with malware that disguises itself as a search engine optimization plugin to attract unwary webmasters.The fake plugin is called WP-Base-SEO and is based on a legitimate SEO module so it is easily overlooked during security scans and seems to be a vi...

An exploit kit called Stegano was found infecting select machines via malicious banner ads that, by conservative estimates, were viewed by over a million users in just the last two months.According to researchers at ESET, who disclosed the campaign on Tuesday in a blog post and Q&A article, the ...

Exploit kits come and go, but most of today's malicious packages are variants of previous iterations, according to a fall roundup by Malwarebytes Labs.The report from the Santa Clara, Calif.-based internet security company provides details on the current crop of malware disseminators. The snapshot, ...

Recent malvertising campaigns were discovered by two security research firms, highlighting the threat of fake and legitimate—but poorly managed—advertising networks that infect victims by taking advantage of redirected web traffic.One of the campaigns, disclosed by Malwarebytes, created fake adverti...

Ad servers have been used previously as a vehicle to deliver malvertising, but a new iteration has been detected that exploits a hack of a third-party ad server.Over the past few weeks, a number of adult websites have been detected distributing display side banners promulgated by the malicious code,...

Ad servers have been used previously as a vehicle to deliver malvertising, but a new iteration has been detected that exploits a hack of a third-party ad server.Over the past few weeks, a number of adult websites have been detected distributing display side banners promulgated by the malicious code,...

An malvertising campaign with an unusually expansive reach was targeting potentially millions of users in the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and the Middle East, infecting victims with ransomware before researchers at Cisco's Talos division took steps to shut down the operation this past month.Active fo...

If you thought too much MSG was the most dangerous thing about ordering Chinese food, consider this: the website for the upscale Mr. Chow restaurants has reportedly been compromised to deliver ransomware to visitors.According to a blog post by Malwarebytes, hackers injected pseudo-Darkleech malware ...

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