- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 28th, 2016
Malvertising Campaign Infected Thousands of Users per Day for More than a Year
Campaign affected 22 ad networks, 113 legitimate sites
- Server related
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- July 16th, 2016
Nearly 200,000 Parked Domains Used to Show Rogue Ads, Hijack Traffic
Chinese domain reseller accused of shady tactics
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- June 23rd, 2016
HTML5 Ads Aren't That Safe Compared to Flash, Experts Say
The real problems are the ad networks and JavaScript
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- May 21st, 2016
Google Play Store Flashlight App Spreads Malicious Ads
Ads try to trick users into installing fake antivirus app
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 25th, 2016
Video Malvertising Campaign Hits FOX News, BusinessInsider Websites
Hackers revive two-week-old attack, target new websites, but use video-based adverts instead of classic banners
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 22nd, 2016
Sophisticated Malvertising Campaign Abusing Baidu API Goes On for Five Months
In wake of recent discovery, Baidu decides to disallow user-defined scripts and Flash content in its ads
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- March 1st, 2016
Whack-A-Mole Game Continues As Malvertising Adds Support for Fingerprinting
Malvertising becomes even harder to detect
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 16th, 2016
Wajam's Adware Now Used in Malvertising Campaign
How ironic: unwanted ads used to push dangerous ads
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 11th, 2016
Malvertising Makes Its Way into Skype
Skype users were safe, but browser users were being redirected to the Angler Exploit Kit, which deployed TeslaCrypt
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- February 4th, 2016
Malvertising Hits TMZ Gossip Site
Malicious ads on TMZ.com redirecting users to Angler EK
- Google News
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 22nd, 2016
Google Blocked 780 Million Bad Ads in 2015, Click-Bots Will Cause $7.2 Billion in Damages in 2016
Google disabled 49% more bad ads in 2015, compared to 2014
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 20th, 2016
Malvertising Returns on Microsoft's MSN Portal
Malicious code found hiding in Lidl ads on MSN.com
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- January 6th, 2016
Free Let's Encrypt Certificates Abused in Malvertising Campaigns
Free Let's Encrypt SSL certificates make their way into the hands of malvertising campaign operators
- Security
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 24th, 2015
Video Ads Malvertising Lasted 2 Months, Not 12 Hours
Initial numbers were wrong, it was much worse
- Security Blog
- By Catalin Cimpanu
- November 14th, 2015
Malvertising Has Now Spread to Video Ads
Malvertising campaign that hit 3,000 websites at the end of October was using malicious code delivered using video ads
- 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
- Incidents
- By Ionut Ilascu
- January 7th, 2015
AOL Ad Network Delivers Exploit Kit to Huffington Post Visitors
HTTPS redirects make analysis more difficult