Social engineering is nothing new. It’s a tool of psychological manipulation that’s been used since the dawn of man. Why? To…
Tag: malvertising
Malvertisers are once again abusing ad technology platform AdSpirit and exposing visitors of the MSN homepage to malware. These attacks appeared…
We have caught a new malvertising campaign on the PopAds network launching the Magnitude exploit kit via pop-under ads.A pop-under is an ad window…
With the holiday season here, we are seeing a rise in online scams that attempt to trick victims into giving out personal information…
We’ve been monitoring a malvertising campaign very closely as it really soared during the past week. The actors involved seem to be…
We have been tracking an attack via .eu sites for several days but were missing the final payload. However, this changed when we…
Update (12/03): AdXpansion contacted us with the following statement:Adxpansion can confirm that these ads were disabled within hours of first being reported…
Throughout 2015, malicious advertising (malvertising) has remained one of the top security threats affecting consumers and businesses. We’ve covered many tricks used by criminal actors…
If there’s one place where the impact of cybercrime is being felt recently, it’s in the UK. The recent TalkTalk hack has dominated…
We identified one of the largest malvertising campaigns in recent months going through 10 different ad domains receiving massive volumes of Internet traffic.Although…