September 2023 - Help Net Security
Malicious ads creep into Bing Chat responses| Help Net Security
Recently, one of our customers noticed suspicious JavaScript loading across their WordPress website. Visitors were being served third-party scripts that the site owner never installed. After investigation, we discovered the infection originated from a malicious modification in the active theme’s functions.php file. This injected PHP code silently fetched external JavaScript from attacker-controlled domains and inserted it into the site’s front-end. Behind the Breach We found a suspicious ...| Sucuri Blog
DNS analysis links Vane Viper's AdTech abuse to AdTech Holding and PropellerAds, delivering malware through fake software, APKs, and redirects.| Infoblox Blog
Google Search malvertising is a name for malicious ads in search results, that appear for certain queries. How do you protect yourself?| Gridinsoft Blogs
Brave warns US Senate & Congress: foreign state actors can use targeted ads to run code on US government computers, exploiting conventional browsers| Dr Johnny Ryan FRHistS
In an extensive campaign affecting 270k webpages, compromised websites were injected with the esoteric JavaScript programming style JSF*ck to redirect users to malicious content. In an extensive campaign affecting 270k webpages, compromised websites were injected with the esoteric JavaScript programming style JSF*ck to redirect users to malicious content.| Unit 42
The 2024 Ad Quality Report found that over 70% of users now perceive at least half of online ads as untrustworthy.| AdMonsters
