Its that time of the year when Cybercriminals play the part of the “Grinch” and make some profit using your Christmas Money.
This trend is not new, has been happening for many years but its just that there are a few things that have changed in the last few years.
For instance the latest released web malware exploitation kit comes with 9 kinds of exploits and 3 licences. Cyber Criminals are exchanging thier gifts this way.
The Kit which is available shares its scripts with competing expoitation kits.
Now that what I call Open Source Malwares and sharing. I think this is one thing big firms like Microsoft, Apple and others can learn “Sharing.”
The following are the Expoits which are used by these Kits:
- modified MDAC and IE Snapshot: Affects both IE6 and IE7 users.
- FF Embed: Affects All Firefox Versions.
- Opera Old&new.
- Old PDF and New PDF.
- XLS: Exploits Excel.
- SWF: Targets all Browsers.
Also the Malwares in these exploits has low detection rate, only 6 out of 37 AVs detect it – 16.22%.
Hope this alerts most users and they find ways to secure their Third Party tools and more.
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- Mac Tablet in the beginning of 2010?
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
Posted under Latest News, Network and Security
This post was written by Brad on November 26, 2008
