- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 29th, 2015
Angler Exploit Kit Used in Malvertising Campaign That Reached 10 Million Users in 10 Days
A possible continuation of a campaign started in June
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 24th, 2015
Adf.ly Service Used to Serve Infostealer via Drive-By Download Attack
Payload focuses on pilfering logins for certain sites
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 12th, 2015
Pop-Under Malvertising Spreads CryptoWall Via Magnitude Exploit Kit
Exploit kit operator can distribute different malware pieces
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- June 11th, 2015
Malvertising Campaign Hits Bejeweled Blitz Game on Facebook, CNN Indonesia
Angler exploit kit delivers ransomware, ad-fraud and bots
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- May 27th, 2015
Flash Player Vulnerability Exploited 2 Weeks After Adobe’s Patch Release
Multiple exploit kits involved in highly active malvertising
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- May 9th, 2015
Dozens of Major Adult Websites Affected by Malvertising Campaign
Exploit targets Flash versions earlier than 17.0.0.134
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- May 8th, 2015
Ad Network MadAdsMedia Server Compromised, Redirects to Nuclear Exploit Kit
Flash Player flaw exploited, final payload is Carberp Trojan
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 17th, 2015
Large-Scale Malvertising Uses Ad Network Merchenta, Google’s DoubleClick
Flash exploit kit identified to deliver the final payload
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- April 8th, 2015
Google Ads Used in Malvertising Campaign via Bulgarian Reseller
Nuclear exploit kit awaits at the end of the redirect chain
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- March 4th, 2015
Hackers Breach Perspectives Website for Religious Classes
Advertisements for abortion pills scattered on the site
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- February 5th, 2015
Fileless Ransomware Delivered Through Malvertising on Popular Sites
Fessleak group abuses ad-bidding network to infect computers
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- February 5th, 2015
Kovter Trojan Distributed via Malvertising on Huffington Post
Campaign still active, AOL and two other ad networks abused
- Security
- By Ionut Ilascu
- January 29th, 2015
Popular Adult Site Slings Flash Player Exploit in Malvertising Campaign
A large number of users is likely to be infected
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- January 15th, 2015
Google AdSense Used for Malvertising Campaign
Forbes and Good Housekeeping names leveraged in the campaign
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- January 7th, 2015
AOL Ad Network Delivers Exploit Kit to Huffington Post Visitors
HTTPS redirects make analysis more difficult
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- October 23rd, 2014
CryptoWall 2.0 Delivered Through Malvertising on Yahoo and Other Large Sites
Crooks made about 65 BTC ($25,000 / €19,700) per day
- Security Blog
- By Ionut Ilascu
- October 21st, 2014
Malvertisement from Major Ad Vendor Used to Change Router DNS Settings
Malicious code is heavily obfuscated to evade detection