Categories: Cyber CrimeMalware

New private Exploit-Kit “Infinity” available on the underground

Security Experts at Intercrawler have discovered in the underground a new Exploit-Kit dubbed “Infinity” which might be a new replacement of “Blackhole”

Security expert at IntelCrawler, a cyber threat intelligence firm based in Los Angeles, discovered a new private exploit-kit called “Infinity” in the underground. It isn’t a distribution on a large-scale, authors reserved it to a limited underground customer base due to security concerns.

We explained the effect on the underground of the arrest of the author of “Blackhole” exploit-kit, Paunch, a growing number of malware authors started the sale of new malicious code.

In the image below shows the advertisement of new private exploit-kit Infinity (“Load on Infinity”).

According investigation done by InterCrawler, the author of the exploit-kit Infinity appears to be a person with nickname “iny” / “pickness”, which credited as reliable on several private underground forums.

At the beginning of 2013 it seems the author “iny” has  created a post where he invites various cybercriminals to join the new exploit-kit project. He also mentioned that he is buying new types of vulnerabilities for famous client-side software. This collaborative strategy was also used by “Paunch” to maximize his exploit-kit with new vulnerabilities to increase the infection rate.” reports the InterCrawler official post.

The exploit is provided with model of sale know as malware-as-a-service, the first advertisements about the new exploit-kit Infinity offer it with the cost starting at 100 USD per day, the subscription includes also updates and technical support. The Exploit-Kit Infinity exploits vulnerabilities for IE11/10, Opera and Firefox.

IntelCrawler  threat intelligence team has already shared with the security community the appearance of the new exploit-kit Infinity in the underground.

“According to IntelCrawler, the Exploit-Kit Infinity might be a new replacement of “Blackhole”, which was actively used for infections of banking customers.”

Pierluigi Paganini

(Security Affairs –  Exploit-kit Infinity, malware)  

Pierluigi Paganini

Pierluigi Paganini is member of the ENISA (European Union Agency for Network and Information Security) Threat Landscape Stakeholder Group and Cyber G7 Group, he is also a Security Evangelist, Security Analyst and Freelance Writer. Editor-in-Chief at "Cyber Defense Magazine", Pierluigi is a cyber security expert with over 20 years experience in the field, he is Certified Ethical Hacker at EC Council in London. The passion for writing and a strong belief that security is founded on sharing and awareness led Pierluigi to find the security blog "Security Affairs" recently named a Top National Security Resource for US. Pierluigi is a member of the "The Hacker News" team and he is a writer for some major publications in the field such as Cyber War Zone, ICTTF, Infosec Island, Infosec Institute, The Hacker News Magazine and for many other Security magazines. Author of the Books "The Deep Dark Web" and “Digital Virtual Currency and Bitcoin”.

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