Angler Exploit Kit – Computer Security Articles

Exploit kits remain a cybercrime staple against outdated software – 2016 threat landscape review series

Despite the disruption of Axpergle (Angler), which dominated the landscape in early 2016, exploit kits as a whole continued to be a threat to PCs running unpatched software. Some of the most prominent threats, from malvertising to ransomware, used exploit kits to infect millions of computers worldwide in 2016. The prevalence of exploit kits as an…

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MSRT April release features Bedep detection

January 23, 2017 admin Angler Exploit Kit, Axpergle, backdoor, Bedep, Bedep geodistribution, Dofoil, Macro-based malware, maps, Microsoft Active Protection Service, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge SmartScreen protection, MSRT, smartscreen, Trojan, Ursnif, Win32/Dofoil, Win32/Fareit, Windows Defender, Windows Defender blogs for home users and small businesses, Zemot

As part of our ongoing effort to provide better malware protection, the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release this April will include detections for: Win32/Bedep – Trojan family Win32/Upatre – Trojan family Ransom:MSIL/Samas – Ransomware family In this blog, we’ll focus on the Bedep family of trojans. The bothersome Bedep Win32/Bedep was first…