We identified a malvertising campaign taking place on adult site xHamster (Alexa rank #68, est. 514 million visitors/month according to SimilarWeb) that abused ad…
Tag: malvertising
OverviewDiscovering a new vulnerability in a popular piece of software is the Holy Grail for cybercriminals. The period between this vulnerability…
A few days ago, we blogged about a malvertising attack on the HuffingtonPost website via a major ad network which took…
Malicious advertising attacks (malvertising) have been plaguing mainstream sites and their visitors a lot these past few years.While some are easy…
Malvertising continues to be one of the biggest and most effective infection mechanism which, for the most part, is based on rogue advertisers…
Update: The ad network, Engage:BDR terminated the malvertising account quickly after notification, on Monday at 10:32AM. We can confirm that this…
We’re on a bit of an educational push here at Malwarebytes with the aim of helping Internet users become a bit…
Update (2/18/15): Business Insider’s report quotes Jamie Oliver’s Management Team The team at jamieoliver.com found a low-level malware problem and dealt with it…
Last year was a busy year for malvertising with top rank ad networks such as Google’s DoubleClick caught in large scale attacks, and…
As the end of 2014 is approaching, it is time to look back at some of the big security threats and…