New Blackhole exploit kit out

Just when you thought Blackhole was the worst online threat out there, here comes Version 2.0 of the exploit kit, a security vendor said this week.

 

Sophos said the new version has "improvements" in the way the dreaded exploit kit evades detection by existing security measures.

 

"The announcement also talks about improvements made to the admin interface. This is important - the author's business is marketing this exploit kit against others on the market. As you can see, improvements include several things designed to make it harder for researchers to harvest content from the exploit sites," it said.

 

It said the kit's authors noted antivirus companies have "become very quick" to catch up and flag the old version of Blackhole as malware.

 

Sophos said the new version hints at the following features:

 

 

"Good to see that we are seen to not be sleeping :)," it quoted those behind the new Blackhole as saying.

 

Sophos said those behind the kit also indicated the following rates:

 

if needed, traffic limit can be raised for the additional fee

 

License fees range from $700 for three months, to $1,500 for one year. — TJD, GMA News