{"id":967,"date":"2013-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/new-whitehole-malware-exploit-kit-revealed\/"},"modified":"2021-12-30T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T11:38:30","slug":"new-whitehole-malware-exploit-kit-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/07\/new-whitehole-malware-exploit-kit-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"New &#8216;whitehole&#8217; malware exploit kit revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyber attacks on U.S. banks likely to continue, experts say. Even before the threat of malware from the Blackhole exploit kit could die down, a new exploit kit has emerged, a security vendor warned over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Trend Micro said the new kit, which it dubbed Whitehole Exploit Kit, uses similar code as Blackhole \u2014but does not bother to hide itself. &#8220;However, the people behind this kit are already peddling the kit and even command a fee ranging from $200 to $1,800,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p>Trend Micro said an analysis of sample exploit malware, detected as JAVA_EXPLOYT.NTW, exploits vulnerabilities to download malicious files on a victim&#8217;s computer. It then downloads BKDR_ZACCESS.NTW and TROJ_RANSOM.NTW, noting ZACCESS\/SIRIEF variants are known bootkit malware that download other malware and push fake applications. &#8220;This specific ZACCESS variant connects to certain websites to send and receive information as well as terminates certain processes.   It also downloads additional malicious files onto already infected systems,&#8221; Trend Micro said.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, ransomware typically locks systems until users pay money via specific payment modes. &#8220;Given Whitehole\u2019s current state, we may be seeing more noteworthy changes to the exploit kit these coming months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Link: http:\/\/www.gmanetwork.com\/news\/story\/294043\/scitech\/technology\/new-whitehole-malware-exploit-kit-revealed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurityinstitute.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}