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Enemy at the gates: Reviewing the Magnitude exploit kit redirection chain

Magnitude exploit kit is mainly used to deliver Cerber ransomware to specific countries in Asia. South Korea is most impacted via ongoing malvertising campaigns. Users are inspected at a gate that decides whether or not they should be allowed to proceed to Magnitude EK. This gate, nicknamed Magnigate by Proofpoint [1], performs additional checks on the visitors IP address and user-agent to determine their geolocation, Internet Service Provider, Operating System and browser information.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2017/08/enemy-at-the-gates-reviewing-the-magnitude-exploit-kit-redirection-chain/

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