In early August 2017, FBI agents in Las Vegas arrested 23-year-old British security researcher Marcus Hutchins on suspicion of authoring and/or selling “Kronos,” a strain of malware designed to steal online banking credentials. Hutchins was virtually unknown to most in the security community until May 2017 when the U.K. media revealed him as the
IT security teams have a finite number of hours to tackle an ever-expanding list of projects. Vulnerability management is only one of those projects and by itself could be all consuming – so, IT organizations often prioritize their vulnerability management efforts. However, recent research shows that organizations focusing only on high-profile vulnerabilitie
Magnitude – an exploit kit par excellence Trustwave has had sight of the inner workings and underlying infrastructure of the Magnitude exploit kit – the coming EK that is rapidly filling the gap left by Blackhole. As Blackhole declines following the arrest of its developer, Paunch, so