Results for 'malvertising'
Neutrino EK’s Afraidgate pushed in malvertising attack
September 13, 2016 - During the past few weeks there has been an increase in malvertising attacks, for example via a series of compromises of open source...
Malvertising campaign delivers two exploit kits, same payload
August 10, 2016 - Malvertising remains a favourite distribution platform for pushing out malware and we typically see certain exploit kits associated with particular campaigns. As...
Long lasting Magnitude EK malvertising campaign not affected by slowdown in EK activity
July 19, 2016 - We have been tracking a malvertising campaign distributing the Cerber ransomware linked to the actor behind the Magnitude exploit kit for months....
Malvertising slowing down, but not out
July 4, 2016 - We have not seen very many large scale malvertising attacks following the mysterious disappearance of the powerful Angler EK. The ones we...
Malvertising and ransomware: the Bonnie and Clyde of advanced threats
June 22, 2016 - A lot of folks in the business (and consumer) world are shaking in their boots about ransomware. It’s understandable. Ransomware is...
Truth in malvertising: How to beat bad ads
June 13, 2016 - Update 6.15.16: An earlier version of this article mentioned a specific adblocking product. Its inclusion was intended to be illustrative only,...
Neutrino exploit kit fills in for Angler EK in recent malvertising campaigns
June 11, 2016 - Update (06/13/2016): Still no sign of Angler EK activity since late June 6th PST. In the meantime, the actor known as ihateclowns/SadClowns...
Malvertising campaign leads to DoubleClick ad fraud
June 6, 2016 - Malvertising isn’t only used to infect users via drive-by downloads or to deceitfully push fake software updates. A campaign currently going...
New wave of malvertising leverages latest Flash exploit
May 25, 2016 - A well known malvertising gang famous for its use of the fingerprinting technique and other evasion tricks to bypass security checks has been ramping...
Malvertising on Blogspot: Scams, adult content, and exploit kits
May 9, 2016 - We don’t really hear about it that much, but malvertising can and does target free blogging platforms as well. Just this morning,...
