Report: 70% Of Exploit Kits Out Of Russia

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http://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/167901121/security/vulnerabilities/240146763/report-70-of-exploit-kits-out-of-russia.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Dark Reading
Jan 22, 2013

Old bugs never really die, a new study shows: nearly 60 percent of 
vulnerabilities used by popular exploit kits are over two years old, according 
to a new study by Solutionary's Security Engineering Research Team (SERT).

And 70 percent of the 26 exploit kits reviewed in the study were released or 
created in Russia. The next-closest region for kit origination is China, with 
7.7 percent of them. And interestingly, despite the wave of DDoS attacks on 
U.S. banks, there was an overall reduction in distributed denial-of-service 
attacks for the period of the study, the fourth quarter of 2012.

The wildly popular and pervasive BlackHole 2.0 actually exploits fewer 
vulnerabilities than other kids do, the report found. The Phoenix exploit kit, 
meanwhile, uses 16 percent of all bugs being exploited.

"SERT identified a large number of the exploit kits have been developed and 
distributed from Eastern Europe. SERT sees a continuation of previous trends 
with the majority of attacks and exploit kit hosts coming from Russia, followed 
by China and then Brazil," the report says.

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