5 major cyber security vulnerabilities from the last few days

In the last few days, a series of quite major vulnerailtities have been discovered across a variety of apps and websites.

Here is everything you need to know.

Casino Malvertising

This attack was pumped out via 10 different ad domains that were mostly on websites offering pirated movies. Without being clicked, the ads would send users to a casino website, which ultimately led to the Angler exploit kit. The Neutrino exploit kit was also being pushed.

The attack has been going on for at least 3 weeks, exposing a large number of people to malware such as the Cryptowall Ransomware and the Bunitu Trojan.

Malwarebytes’ Jerome Segura “one of the largest malvertising campaigns in recent months”.

Blackhole resurfaces

The infamous Blackhole malware returned this week, again discovered and documented by Malwarebytes. The attacks were evening reusing the PDF and Java exploits used before. This is despite the fact that the hack behind the code, Paunch, was arrested in 2013.

The fact that the exploits are a bit old does not stop some computers being vulnerable, and it is thought that the old code, which is public is being updated. For the full article click here 

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