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Malvertising Leads to Magnitude Exploit Kit, Ransomware Infection (Threatpost)

2015-05-19 16:38

Researchers from ZScaler have uncovered a new scheme where criminals are using malversting to redirect to pages hosting the Magnitude exploit kit and the CryptoWall ransomware.

News URL

http://threatpost.com/malvertising-leads-to-magnitude-exploit-kit-ransomware-infection/112894

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