Sodinokibi Ransomware Targeting Asia via the RIG Exploit Kit

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A new malvertising campaign being used on low quality web games and blogs is redirecting Asian victims to the RIG exploit kit, which is then quietly installing the Sodinokibi Ransomware.

First spotted by exploit kit researcher mol69, this new malvertising campaign is targeting Internet Explorer users from Vietnam, Korea, Malaysia and possibly other Asian countries.

When browsing the web, the malvertising campaign will redirect users to a RIG exploit kit gateway that will attempt to exploit Flash vulnerabilities in the browser. If successful, a user will see Internet Explorer begin to crash and various alerts from the Windows Script Host...