2011 Articles
16 DEC 2011
Thank you all for your support in the release of the Converter tool! I received a...
15 DEC 2011
A new exploit pack is being used in the wild. This one was linked to malvertisements...
29 NOV 2011
There’s another new exploit pack making its round. Seems to be quite pervasive...
19 NOV 2011
PDFStreamDumper is a PDF analyzer developed by Sandsprite’s David Zimmer...
12 NOV 2011
A Chinese website contains malvertisement that leads to a few exploits including...
12 NOV 2011
Phishing appears to be on the decline but some phishers aren’t stopping and have...
9 NOV 2011
A suspicious email was received on 10/26/2011 and targeted a single, key...
27 OCT 2011
It's bad enough to get hit with one drive-by download...but two on one page...
26 OCT 2011
After a long hiatus, it appears that Neosploit may have come back to life! While...
22 OCT 2011
I normally come across straight-forward drive-by downloads. Due to some website...
8 OCT 2011
A popular movie website appears to be infecting unsuspecting visitors’ computers...
1 OCT 2011
added “Nuclear Pack” to most wanted section. there’s several new packs out there...
17 SEP 2011
Now that the BreakingPoint Systems contest is over and since several of you...
11 SEP 2011
One of the guys over at BreakingPoint Systems detailed a cool, new Javascript...
8 SEP 2011
I tracked this exploit pack back in November. Several months later, the pack...
1 SEP 2011
added Micro-Pack Exploit System and Punchy-Pack Exploit System...
27 AUG 2011
I've received a ton of requests for the Converter tool. I use this tool a lot...
26 AUG 2011
A reader sent in obfuscated Javascript code that he needed some help to...
17 AUG 2011
One of my favorite hacking resource site appears to be hacked and possibly...
11 AUG 2011
The researchers over at Armorize identified a new technique some time ago called...
14 JUL 2011
Back in 2008, Dancho Danchev blogged about a Christmas-themed attack toolkit...
2 JUL 2011
i moved things around based on the year of its appearance...
24 JUN 2011
In the previous article, I manually deobfuscated three malicious scripts...
17 JUN 2011
Deobfuscating Javascript can be tricky so why not make the job easier by using a...
15 JUN 2011
ScriptKiddieSec broke the news about a new exploit pack called “Best Pack”...
14 JUN 2011
This is a new exploit pack that is being offered for free. It also goes by the name...
13 JUN 2011
Several readers sent me email asking how to decipher Javascript code without...
11 JUN 2011
There’s yet another malvertisement that leads to Black Hole. This campaign...
4 JUN 2011
Looks like Incognito got updated yet again. Let’s reverse the Javascript exploit...
1 JUN 2011
lots of requests to keep this going...send me updates here: sectek at live dot com...
28 MAY 2011
Normally when you visit a webpage that’s been compromised, you can find the malicious...
21 MAY 2011
The latest Facebook spam Javascript code was sent to me. Apparently there are...
20 MAY 2011
Some time ago, the Open Source Exploit Pack was released on some hacker forums...
15 MAY 2011
First off, many thanks goes out to Paul for doing all of the legwork on this new...
13 MAY 2011
As the American Idol finale approaches, millions of people are keeping an eye...
11 MAY 2011
Yesterday I received this UPS email with a malicious zipped attachment...
10 MAY 2011
i got a lot of responses on my graphic so i’m posting an update with the feedback...
8 MAY 2011
Here’s yet another new kit but I don’t have much on this including whether this...
29 APR 2011
From the looks of it, the catholic.org site appears to have been compromised in...
27 APR 2011
There are many online Javascript encoder sites that enable you to obfuscate your...
23 APR 2011
Here we see a fake UPS email suggesting that a package has arrived...
22 APR 2011
The recently announced Adobe Flash 0day exploit (CVE-2011-0611) has been found...
19 APR 2011
since there seems to be a lot of interest in attack toolkits, i grabbed the logos...
14 APR 2011
The author(s) of the Yes Exploit System has quietly upgraded their kit to version...
11 APR 2011
This particular malvertisement shows that hackers are being a little more sneaky...
7 APR 2011
just wanted to put out a cyber security tip sheet i created for my company...
3 APR 2011
Looks like a new exploit kit is making its rounds. The seller is actually a service...
1 APR 2011
No, not at all but the Javascript code does look like it’s just trying to process...
27 MAR 2011
Some time ago, it was rumored that the ZeuS author gave his code to the SpyEye...
26 MAR 2011
A new exploit kit is being used though it doesn't seem as popular as Incognito...
03 MAR 2011
After posting the previous article on Incognito, I was told by a couple of people...
25 FEB 2011
Incognito is a relatively new exploit kit. It uses the following Javascript...
12 FEB 2011
I recently sat in on a presentation that discussed how a malicious program was...
31 JAN 2011
This post is the third and final entry of redirect scripts I wrote to test my...
22 JAN 2011
This post is the second part of my quest to test a Javascript Analyzer program I...
18 JAN 2011
A couple of months ago, I created a program that would analyze Javascript...
14 JAN 2011
Siberia Exploit Kit has been around for awhile but has been updated recently and...
11 JAN 2011
Websense put out a blog post late last year that shocked me and probably the rest...
2 JAN 2011
PandaLabs reported that 34% of all malware ever created has appeared in the last...
