A malvertising campaign was behind the breach of more than 120 servers. Over the past year. “Tag Barnakle” managed to inject code, in order to show malicious ads. The ads would redirect users to malicious websites. Thus, it exposes them to malware or scamware.
Malvertising targets old outdated software. So, according to Confiant, using modern web browsers, ad blockers and keeping the operating system up to date with the security updates can prevent being infected.
Usually, threat actors target malvertising at specific web…
A fake ad campaign serving a trojanized version of the AnyDesk program ranked higher in searches than the legitimate ads. The ads which appeared in the Google Search results came with a a fake version of the remote desktop app. Although this was a trojanized version, the…
Anyone would like to disable ads when they become annoying! Most of the time they cover the interesting content or they just pop-up over a page. And we wonder why we should take these. Content producers say that they could not survive without these ads.
Still…
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) is standard mechanism for formatting web pages. Developers use it to define text styles, for instance, but also other aspects of the web pages.
Why is CSS very useful?
Well, Cascading Style Sheet is the
standard that helps developers…
As the pandemic also brought a financial crisis for some companies, online ads became the main way for them to reach their costumers. Online companies try to take benefit of this situation and invest more in online advertising, while the offline ones need to adapt, in order…
Working online might be dangerous, when we are not protected by the company’s defense system, but we will show you how to install Ad Guardian Plus. During this time, many of us work from home to prevent the spread of the pandemic. So, it might be annoying as most of…
Security analysts discovered a huge hole in Intel’s read-only memory. Afterwards, they said that nobody can fix it. Moreover, this leaves all Intel’s devices exposed, except Intel’s latest 10th generation devices. The security company Positive Technologies…
ESET researchers revealed a critical vulnerability in Wi-Fi chips. KrØØk, as they call it, causes vulnerable devices to use an all-zero encryption key to encrypt part of the user’s communication. So, attackers might decrypt some wireless network data transmitted by such…
Google announced it removed 500 malicious extensions. The Chrome extensions stole data of 1.7 million users. But the extensions were removed after they injected malicious ads used to send user browsing data to hacked servers.
The malvertising and ad-fraud
campaign using…
