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Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Browser update? Do not trust, and do verify before downloading potential malware.

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Tags: chrome Chtonic fake updates FakeUpdates firefox flash Joomla malvertising malware rat Squarespace wordpress

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February 28, 2018 admin

RIG malvertising campaign uses cryptocurrency theme as decoy

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:45:10 +0000

This malvertising campaign uses a popular cryptocurrency theme to redirect users to the RIG exploit kit.

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Tags: cryptocurrencies malvertising RIG RIGEK

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February 28, 2018 admin

New RIG malvertising campaign uses cryptocurrency theme as decoy

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:45:10 +0000

This malvertising campaign uses a popular cryptocurrency theme to redirect users to the RIG exploit kit.

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Tags: cryptocurrencies malvertising RIG RIGEK

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February 26, 2018 admin

The state of malicious cryptomining

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 16:08:03 +0000

From malware coin miners to drive-by mining, we review the state of malicious cryptomining in the past few months by looking at the most notable incidents and our own telemetry stats.

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Tags: coin miners coin-have Coinbase coinhive crypto-loot cryptocurrency cryptomining drive-by malvertising malware monero

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February 6, 2018 admin

Safer Internet Day 2018: ad blockers and anti-trackers

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:00:00 +0000

Today, on Safer Internet Day, we’re going to look at some of the easiest, fastest, completely free things you can do to have a safer Internet experience. Starting with ad blockers and anti-tracking browser extensions.

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Tags: adblocker malvertising privacy safer internet day safety

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January 9, 2018 admin

RIG exploit kit campaign gets deep into crypto craze

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:11:16 +0000

We take a look at a prolific campaign that is focused on the distribution of coin miners via drive-by download attacks. We started to notice larger-than-usual payloads from the RIG exploit kit around November 2017, a trend that has continued more recently via a campaign dubbed Ngay.

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Tags: bitcoin Bytecoin cryptocurrency cryptominers cryptomining drive-by downloads Drive-by mining Electroneum exploit kits malvertising monero Ngay RIG EK