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Cybercriminals are increasingly abusing .eu domains in attacks |
November 24, 2012
Cybercriminals are increasingly using .eu domain names in their attack campaigns, according to data from multiple security companies.
“Numerous malicious .eu domains have been registered during November which are being used to infect PCs with malware via the Blackhole exploit kit,” said Fraser Howard, principal virus researcher at security vendor Sophos, in a blog post on Thursday.
Blackhole is a Web-based attack toolkit that uses exploits for vulnerabilities in browser plug-ins like Adobe Reader, Flash Player or Java, to infect computers with malware.
In the attack seen by Sophos, cybercriminals hosted their Blackhole attack pages on random-looking domain names with the .eu extension, all pointing to a known malicious server located in the Czech Republic.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2016524/cybercriminals-are-increasingly-abusing-eu-domains-in-attacks.html
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