By Ionut Arghire on January 15, 2017
A newly observed campaign leveraging the RIG exploit kit is targeting outdated versions of popular applications such as Flash, Internet Explorer, or Microsoft Edge to distribute the Cerber ransomware, Heimdal Security warns.
The attack leverages a swarm of malicious domains to launch drive-by attacks against unsuspecting visitors and preys on their failure to update applications in a timely manner. Thus, as long as they use outdated browsers or plugins that contain known vulnerabilities, they are likely to be infected with malware when navigating to one of those sites.
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New RIG Campaign Distributes Cerber Ransomware
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