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The Blackhole exploit kit has received a lot of attention recently, and we have published several technical papers on it.

The attention is warranted - the kit remains one of the most prevalent being used by criminals to infect users with malware.

In this article I am going to take a look at some of the recent attacks against legitimate websites that are being used to drive unsuspecting user traffic to the Blackhole exploit sites.

The newly-published Sophos Security Threat Report 2013reveals that web exploit kits like the notorious Blackhole exploit kit are responsible for the majority of web attacks today.The development of such attack kits, which exploit vulnerabilities to silently infect web-browsing computers, has been interesting for computer security professionals to follow.