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CVE-2025-47620
Cross-Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability in bundgaard Martins Free Monetized Ad Exchange Network martins-free-and-easy-ad-network-get-more-visitors allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Martins Free Monetized Ad Exchange Network: from n/a through = 1.0.6...
Google ads lead to major malvertising campaign
Fraudsters have long been leveraging the shady corners of the internet to place malicious adverts, leading users to various scams. However, every now and again we see a campaign that goes mainstream and targets some of the worlds top brands. Case in point, we recently uncovered a malvertising cha...
Meta blows safety bubble around users after reports of sexual harassment
There’s trouble brewing in the Metaverse, but the trouble isnt a particularly new problem. In fact, it’s been an issue for years - and so have many of the solutions. Strangely, Meta is having to play catch-up where some basic security and safety settings are concerned in the virtual realm. At...
The Facebook Pixel Hunt aims to unravel Facebook’s tracking methods. Will you join?
Browser developer Mozilla has announced a research project to provide insights into, and data about, a space that’s opaque to policymakers, researchers and users themselves. Tracking the trackers is the name of the game. Give up some of your data voluntarily to stop the involuntary collection by...
Facebook Sues Two Android App Developers for Click Injection Fraud
Facebook has filed a lawsuit against two shady Android app developers accused of making illegal money by hijacking users' smartphones to fraudulently click on Facebook ads. According to Facebook, Hong Kong-based 'LionMobi' and Singapore-based 'JediMobi' app developers were distributing malicious...
Malvertising Campaigns Skirt Ad Blockers, Serve Up Mac Malware
Two fresh malvertising campaigns are making the scene that are abusing the convoluted underpinnings of the internet economy to find malware victims. One is a large-scale exploit kit EK campaign designed to circumvent traditional safeguards, such as ad blockers, and the other uses web redirects to...
Ad Network Sizmek Probes Account Breach
Online advertising firm Sizmek Inc. NASDAQ: SZMK says it is investigating a security incident in which a hacker was reselling access to a user account with the ability to modify ads and analytics for a number of big-name advertisers. In a recent posting to a Russian-language cybercrime forum, an...
FBI Sinkholes $38M Global Ad Fraud Operation
The FBI has taken control of 31 web domains in a widespread takedown of a multi-year, global ad fraud campaign, believed to have stolen at least $38 million, partly via a botnet strategy. In addition, eight defendants face a 13-count indictment from a federal court in Brooklyn in the case. The...
Tech support scam uses fake Shoppers Stop site to lure thousands
Update 2018-05-17: Shoppers Stop is a legitimate company based out of India and their brand was abused by scammers. These days, there are a lot of browser locker campaigns fueled by malvertising or redirection from hacked sites. But the Shoppers Stop tech scam campaign is actually a bit of both,...
Week in security (February 26 – March 4)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we explained how to protect your computer from malicious cryptomining, we gave an encryption 101 lesson using ShiOne ransomware as a case study, and we offered an explanation about SQL injection. We also released a report on the state of malicious cryptomining from...
Ad Network Circumvents Ad-Blocking Tools To Run In-Browser Cryptojacker Scripts
Cryptojackers are getting resourceful and have figured out how to bypass ad-blocking software and deliver the Coinhive JavaScript miner via browser-based ads. Researchers at Qihoo’s Netlab 360 said it recently spotted an advertising network that was using what is called a domain generation...
Malvertising Campaign Pushing Neutrino Exploit Kit Shut Down
A global malvertising campaign exposing potentially one million users to the risk of being infected with CrypMIC ransomware delivered via the Neutrino Exploit Kit has been shut down, according to researchers. Cisco’s Talos Security Intelligence and Research Group, which discovered the criminal...
JavaScript-Based DDoS Peaks at 275,000 Requests Per Second
Two years ago at the Black Hat conference, WhiteHat Security researchers Jeremiah Grossman and Matt Johansen explained how hackers could in theory leverage an online ad network to distribute malicious JavaScript efficiently and quickly. Depending on how much money the attacker wanted to spend, th...
Google to Expand Use of Safe Browsing to Stop Unwanted Software
Google is expanding the use of its Safe Browsing mechanism to warn users about a broader variety of unwanted software, in addition to the warnings they see regarding phishing pages, malware, and other threats. Safe Browsing is the service that Google uses to help protect Chrome users from malicio...
Malvertising Campaign Hits AOL Ad Network, Leads to Exploit Kit
Researchers have detected a malvertising campaign running on a pair of sites owned by Huffington Post that is using ads distributed through an AOL ad network. The attack is sending victims through a series of redirects that eventually brings them to a landing page that is running an exploit kit...
Ad Network Script Persistent XSS Vulnerability
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Researchers Uncover Interesting Browser-Based Botnet
Security researchers discovered an odd DDoS attack against several sites recently that relied on a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability in a major video Web site and hijacked users’ browsers in order to flood the site with traffic. The attack on the unnamed site involved the use of...
Yahoo Ad Network abused to redirect users to malicious websites serving Magnitude Exploit Kit
Internet advertisement networks provide hackers with an effective venue for targeting wide range computers through malicious advertisements. Previously it was reported by some security researchers that Yahoo's online advertising Network is one of the top ad networks were being abused to spread...
FreeBSD : OpenX -- SQL injection vulnerability (3e33a0bb-6b2f-11e3-b042-20cf30e32f6d)
Revive reports : A SQL-injection vulnerability was recently discovered and reported to the Revive Adserver team by Florian Sander. The vulnerability is known to be already exploited to gain unauthorised access to the application using brute force mechanisms, however other kind of attacks might be...
Google, FireEye Demand Change from Vulna Ad Network
An Android ad library containing a maliciously potent cocktail of features and vulnerabilities is less of a danger to Android users today after Google and the ad network made a series of changes spurred by security firm FireEye’s insistence. Despite fixes from the ad network, updates implemented ...