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Pierluigi Paganini June 22, 2022

Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer

Threat actors are using the Rig Exploit Kit to spread the Dridex banking trojan instead of the Raccoon Stealer malware. Since January 2022, the Bitdefender Cyber Threat Intelligence Lab observed operators behind the RIG Exploit Kit pushing the Dridex banking trojan instead of the Raccoon Stealer. The switch occurred in February when Raccoon Stealer temporarily halted […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2018

RIG Exploit Kit operators leverage PROPagate Injection Technique to deliver Miner

FireEye reported the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. Security experts from FireEye have documented the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. The PROPagate code injection technique was first discovered […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2018

Analysis of the evolution of exploit kits in the threat landscape

Cyber criminal organizations and state-sponsored hackers continue to use Exploit kits to compromise targets world worldwide if the use of Exploit kits is decreased across the recent months, some of them were improved by adding the code to exploit recently discovered Flash and Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerabilities. “Since both Flash and the VBScript engine are […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2018

Crooks included the code for CVE-2018-8174 IE Zero-Day in the RIG Exploit Kit

Cyber criminals recently added the code for the CVE-2018-8174 Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. Crooks recently added the code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability to the infamous RIG exploit kit. The Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-8174, was first discovered a few weeks ago, it affects VBScript implemented in Internet Explorer and Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 28, 2018

Experts noticed an ongoing activity involving the RIG Exploit Kit to deliver the Grobios Trojan

Malware researchers from FireEye recently noticed an interesting ongoing activity involving the infamous RIG Exploit Kit (EK) to deliver the Grobios Trojan. Security experts highlighted several times the decline of the exploit kit activity after the disappearance of the Angler and Nuclear exploit kits in 2016. Anyway, researchers at FireEye periodically observe significant developments in this […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2017

Experts shut down tens of thousands of subdomains set up with a domain shadowing campaign

Experts killed tens of thousands of subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit Kit that were set up with a domain shadowing campaign. GoDaddy and RSA Security, with the support of other security companies and researchers, have shut down tens of thousands of illegally established subdomains used by crooks to host the RIG Exploit […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2017

New campaign leverages RIG Exploit kit to deliver the Cerber Ransomware

Experts from Heimdal Security warned of a spike in cyber attacks leveraging the popular RIG Exploit kit to deliver the Cerber Ransomware. The RIG exploit kit is even more popular in the criminal ecosystem, a few days ago security experts at Heimdal Security warned of a spike in cyber attacks leveraging the popular Neutrino and […]

Pierluigi Paganini August 04, 2015

RIG Exploit Kit 3.0 infected over 1.3 Million PC worldwide

Version 3.0 of the RIG exploit kit has been released with new significant improvement. It has already infected more than 1.3 million PC worldwide. Early 2015, part of the source code for the 2.0 version of the RIG exploit kit was leaked online due to a dispute between the main developer and a reseller. According […]

RIG exploit kit

Crooks are using RIG Exploit Kit to push Dridex instead of Raccoon stealer

RIG Exploit Kit operators leverage PROPagate Injection Technique to deliver Miner

Analysis of the evolution of exploit kits in the threat landscape

Crooks included the code for CVE-2018-8174 IE Zero-Day in the RIG Exploit Kit

Experts noticed an ongoing activity involving the RIG Exploit Kit to deliver the Grobios Trojan

Experts shut down tens of thousands of subdomains set up with a domain shadowing campaign

New campaign leverages RIG Exploit kit to deliver the Cerber Ransomware

RIG Exploit Kit 3.0 infected over 1.3 Million PC worldwide

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