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Infosec exec sold eight zero-day exploit kits to Russia, says DOJ

PLUS: Fake ransomware group exposed; EC blesses Google's big Wiz deal; Alleged sewage hacker cuffed; And more Infosec in Brief The former General Manager of defense contractor L3Harris’s cyber ...
Homeland Security Today

Exploit Kits: The Silent Web Threat Affecting Billions

When we talk to people whose computers have been infected, they often ask how it happened. In a growing number of cases, they have been doing nothing more than reading a news website or browsing for ...
Computerworld

Cybercriminals selling exploit-as-a-service kit

Cybercriminals are taking a page from the software-as-a-service playbook: they’re now selling exploit kits complete with hosting services, with customers paying for the length of time the exploits are ...
Infosecurity Magazine

Chinese-Made Malware Kit Targets Chinese-Based Routers and Edge Devices

The researchers were hunting for samples of DarkNimbus, a backdoor linked to the MOONSHINE exploit kit which have both been known about since 2023, , when they found a fully featured ...
Homeland Security Today

A Deep Dive Into RIG Exploit Kit Delivering Grobios Trojan

Exploit kit activity has been on the decline since the latter half of 2016. However, we do still periodically observe significant developments in this space, and we have been observing interesting ...
InfoWorld

Hackers update malware tool kit with zero-day code

A new version of the IcePack hacker exploit tool kit has been released, security researchers warned Tuesday, and for the first time it includes attack code designed to exploit an unpatched, or ...
Bleeping Computer

Hackers exploit Cisco SNMP flaw to deploy rootkit on switches

Threat actors exploited a recently patched remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-20352) in Cisco networking devices to deploy a rootkit and target unprotected Linux systems. The security issue ...
Forbes

New Android, Windows Warning—Attack Erases Browser Security Updates

Another threat group using an Android exploit kit, and a backdoor that targets both Android and Windows users, could easily slip under your reading radar. After all, there are just so many ...
Bleeping Computer

US offers $2.5 million reward for hacker linked to Angler Exploit Kit

The U.S. Department of State and the Secret Service have announced a reward of $2,500,000 for information leading to Belarusian national Volodymyr Kadariya (Владимир Кадария) for cybercrime activities ...
CSOonline

The US offers a $2.5M bounty for the arrest of Angler Exploit Kit co-distributor

The State Department has placed a bounty of up to $2.5 million on information leading to Volodymyr Kedariya’s arrest. The US Department of State is offering a reward of $2.5 million for information ...
Computerworld

New Whitehole exploit toolkit emerges on the underground market

A new exploit kit called Whitehole has emerged on the underground market, providing cybercriminals with one more tool to infect computers with malware over the Web, security researchers from antivirus ...