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Expired domain names and malvertising

September 5, 2017 - In Q1 and Q2 of 2017, we noticed a sharp decline in drive-by downloads coming from compromised websites. The campaigns of...

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BSides Manchester: Malvertising – under the hood

August 31, 2017 - I’ve talked about malvertising a fair bit at security events down the years and I was lucky enough to be able...

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AdGholas malvertising thrives in the shadows of ransomware outbreaks

July 5, 2017 -   The latest wave of ransomware following the WannaCry outbreak has kept everyone very busy and been the topic of many conversations. In the meantime, other threat...

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Binary Options malvertising campaign drops ISFB banking Trojan

April 20, 2017 - We have been witnessing a series of malvertising attacks that keep a low profile with decoy websites and strong IP address filtering....

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Malvertising on iOS pushes eyebrow-raising VPN app

April 6, 2017 - There is a preconceived idea that malvertising mostly affects the Windows platform. Certainly, when it comes to malicious adverts, Internet Explorer...

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Canada and the U.K. hit by Ramnit Trojan in new malvertising campaign

March 21, 2017 - Over the last few days we have observed an increase in malvertising activity coming from adult websites that have significant traffic (several million...

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Cybercrime | News

AdGholas malvertising: business as usual

December 6, 2016 - The largest malvertising attacks are the ones you seldom hear about. A group identified as AdGholas by Proofpoint which has been...

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An overview of malvertising on the Mac

November 22, 2016 - Most people associate malvertising with malware and the Windows platform. Indeed, the vast majority (and most damaging) attacks that happen thanks...

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Cybercrime | News

The HookAds malvertising campaign

November 1, 2016 - Not long ago we wrote about a new piece of malware called ‘Trick Bot‘ which we caught in a malvertising attack...

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RIG exploit kit takes on large malvertising campaign

September 27, 2016 - There has been an interesting battle between two exploit kits in the past few months. Following the demise of the Angler...

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