Complex Malvertising Scheme Impacts Multiple Levels of Web Economy

UPDATE A sprawling malvertising campaign that leverages the AdsTerra legitimate online advertising company has been uncovered, involving at least 10,000 compromised websites and driving legions of web visitors around the world to exploit kits. AdsTerra, one of the largest ad networks out there,...

Researchers Tie Pirrit Adware to Israeli Marketing Company

Researchers have linked a variant of the Pirrit adware for Mac OS X to an Israeli online marketing company called TargetingEdge that is still in stealth mode. Amit Serper, lead Linux and Mac OS X researcher at Cybereason, said that script he wrote to remove the original version of Pirrit from...