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Far East Targeted by Drive by Download Attack

This blog was co-authored by Kevin Brooks, Alex Chiu, Joel Esler , Martin Lee ,  Emmanuel Tacheau , Andrew Tsonchev , and Craig Williams .   On the 21st of [...]

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Old and Persistent Malware

Malware can find its way into the most unexpected of places. Certainly, no website can be assumed to be always [...]

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Big Data: Observing a Phishing Attack Over Years

Overview Phishing attacks use social engineering in an attempt to lure victims to fake websites. The websites could allow the [...]

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Threat Spotlight: “A String of Paerls”, Part 2, Deep Dive

This post has been coauthored by  Joel Esler ,  Craig Williams ,  Richard Harman ,  Jaeson Schultz , and  Douglas Goddard   In part  one  of our two part blog series [...]

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The Art of Escape

Craig Williams  and  Jaeson Schultz  have contributed to this post. We  blogged  in September of 2013 about variants of Havex. A month ago on June 2, [...]

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Threat Spotlight: A String of ‘Paerls’, Part One

This post was co-authored by  Jaeson Schultz ,  Joel Esler , and  Richard Harman . This is part one in a two-part series due to the [...]

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A Collection of Cryptographic Vulnerabilities.

The rustic origins of the English language are evident in the words left to us by our agricultural ancestors. Many [...]

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RIG Exploit Kit Strikes Oil

This post was co-authored by Levi Gundert with contributions from Emmanuel Tacheau and Joel Esler. In the last month we [...]

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Attack Analysis with a Fast Graph

This post is co-authored by Martin Lee, Armin Pelkmann, and Preetham Raghunanda. Cyber security analysts tend to redundantly perform the [...]

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Walking in a Winter Wonderland

It is not uncommon to see an anti-spam system catch >99% of the spam passing through it. Most of the [...]

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April 2014 Threat Metrics

April kicked off with a 1:292 rate of malware encounters and closed with a rate of 1:315. Highest peak day [...]

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Angling for Silverlight Exploits

This post is co-authored by Andrew Tsonchev, Jaeson Schultz, Alex Chiu, Seth Hanford, Craig Williams, Steven Poulson, and Joel Esler. Special thanks [...]

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IE Zero Day – Managed Services Protection

As of May 1, 2014, we can confirm Cisco customers have been targets of this attack. For the latest coverage [...]

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IE Zero Day and VGX.dll

The recent discovery of a new Internet Explorer zero-day exploit underlines how exposed web browsers are to vulnerabilities for which a [...]

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Year-Long Exploit Pack Traffic Campaign Surges After Leveraging CDN

Anyone can purchase an exploit pack (EP) license or rent time on an existing EP server. The challenge for threat actors is to redirect unsuspecting web browsing victims by force to the exploit landing...

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March 2014 Threat Metrics

The median rate of web malware encounters in March 2014 was 1:260, compared to a median rate of 1:341 requests [...]

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February 2014 Threat Metrics

Web surfers in February 2014 experienced a median malware encounter rate of 1:341 requests, compared to a January 2014 median encounter rate [...]

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Coordinated Website Compromise Campaigns Continue to Plague Internet

This post is co-authored with Levi Gundert and Andrew Tsonchev . Update 2014-03-21: For clarity, the old kernel is a common indicator on the [...]

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Understanding Security Through Probability

This post was also authored by Min-yi Shen and Martin Lee . Security is all about probability. There is a certain probability [...]

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January 2014 Threat Metrics

January 2014 started with a bang, with one in every 191 web requests resulting in a web malware encounter. The [...]

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