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Pierluigi Paganini April 17, 2019
eGobbler hackers used Chrome bug to deliver 500Million+ ads to iOS users

Threat Group Exploits Chrome Bug to Serve Malicious Ads to iOS Users Threat actors tracked as eGobbler developed a new exploit that is allowing them to serve more than 500 million malicious ads to iOS users. The group tracked as eGobbler is exploiting a security flaw in the Google Chrome browser to target millions of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 27, 2018
Trend Micro spotted a malvertising campaign abusing Google’s DoubleClick to deliver Coinhive Miner

Trend Micro uncovered a spike in the number of Coinhie miners over the past few days, including Coinhive, apparently linked to Google’s DoubleClick ads that are proposed on YouTube and other sites. The number of cyber-attacks against cryptocurrencies is increased due to a rapid increase in the value of currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum. […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 29, 2017
Matrix Ransomware being distributed through malvertising

Security expert Jérôme Segura from Malwarebytes has spotted that Matrix Ransomware has risen again, it is now being distributed through malvertising. Malware researcher Jérôme Segura from Malwarebytes has discovered that Matrix Ransomware is now being distributed through malvertising campaign. https://twitter.com/EKFiddle/status/923660551095427072 The Matrix Ransomware was first spotted in 2016, in April 2017 the threat intelligence expert Brad Duncan uncovered the EITest campaign using […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2017
Equifax website redirected visitors to fake Flash update, it’s malvertising

Equifax service set up for obtaining free and discounted credit reports had been redirecting users to websites offering a fake Flash Player installer. The independent security analyst Randy Abrams discovered an Equifax service set up for obtaining free and discounted credit reports had been redirecting users to websites offering a fake Flash Player installer. “As I […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 04, 2017
A fresh massive AdGholas Malvertising campaign infects millions

Researchers at Proofpoint discovered a massive AdGholas Malvertising Campaign infecting as many as 1 million computers per day with several banking trojans. A new massive AdGholas malvertising network discovered by experts at Proofpoint has been infecting as many as 1 million computers per day with several banking trojans. AdGholas operators have been active since 2015, the threat […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2017
Malvertising campaign in Google Search redirected users to tech support scam

Malicious ads in Google search results for the US retail giant Target redirected users to a tech support scam. The malvertising campaign was first reported last week by a US user who posted his observations to a StackExchange thread and was then reported by Bleepingcomputer.com. Just querying Google for the term “target,” users were displayed on the […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 25, 2017
CVE-2017-0022 Windows Zero-Day flaw used by AdGholas hackers and it was included in Neutrino EK

The recently patched CVE-2017-0022 Windows Zero-Day vulnerability has been exploited by threat actors behind the AdGholas malvertising campaign and Neutrino EK since July 2016. Microsoft has fixed several security flaws with the March 2017 Patch Tuesday updates. According to security experts at Trend Micro, the list of fixed vulnerabilities includes three flaws that had been exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini December 07, 2016
Stegano campaign exposed millions netizens via attack code in pixels of ads banners

Stegano campaign – Millions of people visiting major websites may have been infected with malicious code that was embedded in pixels of the ads banners. A single pixel could be used to compromise your PC, millions of people visiting major websites over the past months may have been infected with malicious code that was embedded in […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 13, 2016
Experts observed several malvertising campaigns deliver Cerber 4.0

Cerber 4.0 is the latest variant of the Cerber ransomware family that is becoming even more common in the malvertising campaign in the wild. Another variant of the notorious Cerber ransomware, the Cerber 4.0, appeared in the wild delivered by several exploit kits, including RIG, Neutrino, and Magnitude EKs. According to the experts from Trend Micro, the Cerber 4.0 first appeared in October […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2016
Also Spotify in the list of services victim of a malvertising campaign

The users of the free version of the popular Spotify online music service have been served malicious advertisements. Spotify users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign, the malicious advertising served to the victims could automatically open a web browser and redirect victims websites hosting malware. Spotify is a popular online music service that allows its […]

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