The Terror exploit kit has matured into a greater threat and carefully crafts attacks based on a user’s browser environment.

Here are the exploit kits to watch for over the next three to six months.

For a long time, exploit kits were the most prolific malware distribution vehicle available to attackers. Where did they go and what’s replaced them?

An Adobe Flash Player vulnerability used by the Sofacy APT gang was also found in seven of the top exploit kits, according to an analysis by Recorded Future.

In a deep analysis of RIG, Cisco Talos team outlined the way the exploit kit combines different web technologies such as DoSWF, JavaScript, Flash and VBscript to obfuscate attacks.

A global malvertising campaign exposing potentially one million users to the risk of being infected with CrypMIC ransomware delivered via the Neutrino Exploit Kit has been shut down, according to researchers. Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group, which discovered the criminal activity, said the malvertising campaign stretched across North America, EU, Asia-Pac and the...

Attackers behind the Neutrino Exploit Kit didn’t take long to co-op a recently patched Internet Explorer zero-day into its arsenal. Researchers claim the kit has been pushing CVE-2016-0189, a vulnerability that was reportedly used in targeted attacks on South Korean organizations earlier this year. Microsoft fixed the vulnerability, which affects Internet Explorer’s scripting engines, in May....

An anime site popular in Mexico and South America has been infected with malware redirecting visitors to a Neutrino Exploit Kit landing page. The site, Jkanime, streams anime video and has 33 million monthly visitors. Neutrino is currently the top dog among exploit kits after two of the bigger kits, Angler and Nuclear, have apparently...

A two-year-old EITest malware campaign is still going strong, fueled by the fact it has shifted its distribution technique over time. Now, researchers at the SANS Institute’s Internet Storm Center, are reporting EITest is morphing again based on analysis of the malware campaign conducted earlier this month. According to researcher Brad Duncan, the EITest malware...

It’s well documented that attackers have reignited their love affair with the Office macro, using it as a vector for spreading banking malware and even the BlackEnergy Trojan as of late. According to researchers at the San Jose security company zScaler, the bot Kasidet, also known as Neutrino, has also adopted this technique. Attackers peddling the bot have stepped it...