Collaborate Disseminate
In recent months, security researchers have identified Punycode attacks as part of malvertising and phishing campaigns targeting both individual users and major email providers.
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Learn why Malwarebytes is blocking exosrv.com, an ad server for adult sites. Hint: it’s not because it’s porn.
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Earlier this year, we faced a growing volume of infections related to a vulnerability in outdated versions of the Newspaper and Newsmag themes. The infection type was always the same: malicious javascript designed to display unauthorized pop-ups or co… Continue reading Javascript Injection Creates Rogue WordPress Admin User
A look at some techniques used by the Terror exploit kit to evade traffic-based detection.
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Steganography continues to be an incredibly versatile and effective method for obscuring or hiding information in plain sight.
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Google Chrome will boast new anti-malvertising security features in new versions of the browser to be released in 2018. The Chrome security team announced the changes on Thursday in a post singling out offenders who “use the flexibility and power of the web to take advantage of users and redirect them to unintended destinations.” The new defenses aim to block users from being redirected to URLs without the consent of either the user or website owner. Forced redirects are a common tactics of malvertisers in efforts to make money and possibly infect victims with malware. The new features are considered follow ups to Chrome’s pop-up blocker and autoplay protections in that they protect users against “unwanted content” that may be either technically dangerous or merely incredibly annoying. Chrome 64, due in January 2018 will block URL redirections triggered by iframes that are almost always used by malicious advertising. Users will stay on […]
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Windows Phone is dead, Disqus gets hacked, malvertising on X rated websites, North Korea ups their cyberattack game, the FBI arrests a cyberstalker, and more security news! Paul’s Stories Windows Phone is now officially dead: A sad tale of what might have been iOS Password Prompts are Ripe for Abuse Disqus Hacked: More than 17.5 […]
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The proverb “it never rains but that it pours” could have been written for Equifax – this time, malvertising. Continue reading Equifax website hit by malvertising – will the pain never end?
Equifax has temporarily taken down one of its consumer-facing credit report services after the webpage was compromised and serving adware via a phony Flash Player download. Continue reading Equifax Takes Down Compromised Page Redirecting to Adware Download
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This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Millions of PornHub users affected by a year long malvertising campaign
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