Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
5 Sep 2016 at 06:28, Darren Pauli Authors of the Sundown exploit kit have proven themselves masters of copy and paste, stealing exploits from rivals and borking encryption when they opt for originality.
Exploit kits offer an arsenal of attacks to the unscrupulous and are popular because they offer many means to point malicious payloads at victim machines. Authors compete to build the most capable exploit kits by reverse-engineering patches to build in the latest exploits, by buying zero-day exploits on underground market or sometimes finding their own flaws.
The Sundown exploit kit is a small player a busy market where the most popular payload propagations can earn their writers tens of millions of dollars ... and the attention of law enforcement authorities.
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