Security News

Malvertising infected millions of users in 2015 (Help Net Security)
2015-06-02 10:33

New research from Malwarebytes has found that malvertising is one of the primary infection vectors used to reach millions of consumers this year. The analysis looked at the three large scale zero-...

Malvertising Leads to Magnitude Exploit Kit, Ransomware Infection (Threatpost)
2015-05-19 16:38

Researchers from ZScaler have uncovered a new scheme where criminals are using malversting to redirect to pages hosting the Magnitude exploit kit and the CryptoWall ransomware.

Large malvertising campaign linked to potentially compromised Google ad reseller (Help Net Security)
2015-04-08 11:07

Dutch infosec firm Fox IT has spotted a lage scale malvertising campaign that seems to originate from Bulgarian Google ad reseller EngageLab. The first redirection has been spotted on Tuesday after...

Ad Networks Ripe for Abuse Via Malvertising (Threatpost)
2015-03-30 14:05

Criminals have found a safe haven abusing legitimate processes, such as real-time bidding, implemented by online advertising networks to move exploits and malware, and build botnets and fraud campaigns.