In October 2021, we discovered that the Magnitude exploit kit was testing out a Chromium exploit chain in the wild. About a month later, we found that the Underminer exploit kit followed suit and developed an exploit for the same Chromium vulnerability. In this blog post, we are taking a closer...
The Magnitude exploit kit, originally known as PopAds, has been around since at least 2012, which is an unusually long lifetime for an exploit kit. However, it’s not the same exploit kit today that it was nine years ago. Pretty much every part of Magnitude has changed multiple times since then. The...