Tag: redirect
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Exploit kit requires link to be clicked before redirection
Automatic analysis of malicious payloads becomes a little bit harder again. A security researcher at ESET has discovered how a malicious site serving the Angler exploit kit prevents automatic analysis by making a user click a link before being redirected to the exploit kit. Having spent many hours during the past two years building a…
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Thousands of websites infected with .htaccess redirect attack
Various anti-detection methods applied. Thousands of legitimate websites have seen .htaccess files compromised and as a consequence have been used to serve the ‘Milisenco’ trojan, researchers at Symantec report. .htaccess is a configuration file used by a number of webservers, including the popular Apache server. It allows for decentralised management of the server and requires…