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Hackers Target Chinese With Notepad++ and Vnote Installers
In a recent revelation by cybersecurity experts at Kaspersky Labs, a concerning cyber threat has emerged targeting users of popular text editing software in China. This sophisticated attack involves the distribution of ...
Avast researchers detect a September surge in malvertising
Bu Alexej Savčin, Gen Senior Malware Analyst ...
Nitrogen Campaign Starts with Fake Ads, Ends with Ransomware
Threat actors are using bogus advertisements for IT tools on sites like Google and Microsoft’s Bing in hopes of luring tech users to inadvertently download malware that kicks off an attack that ...
Fake Malwarebytes Site Used by Malvertising Attack to Spread Raccoon
A malvertising campaign used a copycat website for anti-malware software provider Malwarebytes to distribute the Raccoon infostealer. Malwarebytes learned of the campaign when someone notified the security firm that someone was abusing ...
Top 10 Podcast Episodes from 2019
Thank you for supporting and listening to the show this year! Initial data on our download numbers show that we’ve grown our audience by over 40% in 2019! Having said that, if ...
Need for Better Employee Protection is Apparent During Cybersecurity Awareness Month
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us again, and it’s a great time to be reminded that the top cause of corporate data breaches is phishing. The very nature of phishing is ...
Malvertising on Legitimate Websites, Even The New York Times
SlashNext recently discovered a new malicious phishing URL distributed through Google ads being served on the The New York Times website ...
eGobbler infects more than 1 billion ads in worldwide campaign
The eGobbler malvertising threat actor has made a return, this time exploiting a WebKit vulnerability used primarily by iPhone’s Safari browser. Security researchers from Confiant estimate up to 1.16 billion impressions have ...
eGobbler Malvertiser Bypassed Browser Protections Using Obscure Bugs
A malvertising actor known as “eGobbler” used obscure browser bugs to bypass built-in browser protections and expand the scope of its attacks. Confiant observed eGobbler exploiting the first vulnerability back on April ...
WordPress sites hacked through defunct Rich Reviews plugin
An estimated 16,000 websites are believed to be running a vulnerable and no-longer-maintained WordPress plugin that can be exploited to display pop-up ads and redirect visitors to webpages containing porn, scams, and–worst ...
