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Remember the malvertising campaigns in the early days where are adverts showing you are the nth visitor, and you have a prize to claim for being the coveted nth visitor on a website? Of course these days the chance of seeing a Flash-based animated advert like that, since Google Chrome itself autoblocks scam-like adverts by […]
A well-known hacker group is behind this malicious campaign Network security and ethical hacking specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security warn about a new malvertising campaign against Apple device users. According to the cybersecurity expert Eliya Stein, the group behind this campaign, called VeryMal, has deployed several campaigns since the middle of last […]
Malware campaigns have become quite regular on Apple devices and as per the new report from Confiant, a cyber-security firm, there’s a new group on the block called that is specifically targeting Apple users through malvertising. The group called VeryMal has employed steganography technique this time to prevent detection and hide the malicious code in […]
Malvertising is a method in which attacker targets online ads to steal credentials of the users, demonstrate ethical hacking experts. These days online advertising is the main source of income. Most popular search engines earnings are the online advertising. So online advertising provide an solid platform for spreading viruses, malware, and even ransomware attacks can […]
For those who use Adblock Plus alongside with Google Chrome web browser or recently installed its extension, here is some bad news for them. A fraudulent developer cloned fake Adblock Plus extension for Chrome and successfully bypassed Google verification process ending up getting over 37,000 downloads. The extension remained available for download with the original one until it […]
A few days ago Skype users noticed that the instant messaging service served a malicious malware masquerading as fake Flash player update. Several users reported this incident on Twitter and Reddit and explained that they noticed an ad which was prompting them to download a malicious file disguised as “Flash player.” Wow not bad, got this in […]
Mainstream Websites including AOL, BBC and The New York Times Become Targets of Malvertising A number of popular, high-profile websites have become targets of an extensive malvertising campaign. The websites attacked include many big names such as MSN, AOL, BBC, and The New York Times. Remember, this is not the first time for MSN to […]
If you visit MSN.com there is a chance your PC has been affected with a malware — Outlook users should also check for it as upon signing out from their email they are redirected to MSN home page. Once again, Microsoft becomes the victim of malicious malvertising, and the culprit behind these misleading ads is […]
MALVERTISING IS WHEN hackers buy ad space on a legitimate website, and, as the name suggests, upload malicious advertisements designed to hack site visitor’s computers. The news page looked perfectly innocent. Apart from the reams of celebrity gossip stories and throw-away magazine layout, nothing about the the website for UK news site The Daily Mail […]
Economist’s anti-ad blocking analytics service got hacked on 31st October (company’s officials didn’t disclose until 5th November) and the exposed site made users download a malware into their systems. The Economist runs a service for publishers that provides statistics on the percentage of users reading their content with ad blocking services on their site. The […]
Yahoo ad network has been exploited by a group of hackers that resulted in a serving of malware and ransomware adverts on Yahoo.com and its sub-websites including news, finance, sports, celebrity and games. The hackers found a vulnerability in the ad network and managed to run an advertisement campaign, which was targeted towards hundreds of […]
Adobe Flash Player has again seen a zero-day exploit that has appeared in the field due to a critical vulnerability that enables drive-by-download attacks. The U.S seems to be teeming with a malvertising-based attack having its foundations on the exploit. It is Adobe Flash Player 16.0.0.296 and earlier versions for the Windows and the Mac […]