Google Ads drop FatalRAT malware from fake messenger, browser apps

By Waqas The primary target of this malware campaign is Chinese-speaking users in East and Southeast Asia. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Ads drop FatalRAT malware from fake messenger, browser apps...

Hackers Using Google Ads to Spread FatalRAT Malware Disguised as Popular Apps

Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results and direct users looking for popular...

Hackers Using Google Ads to Spread FatalRAT Malware Disguised as Popular Apps

Chinese-speaking individuals in Southeast and East Asia are the targets of a new rogue Google Ads campaign that delivers remote access trojans such as FatalRAT to compromised machines. The attacks involve purchasing ad slots to appear in Google search results and direct users looking for popular...

Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads

They say you can't have too much of a good thing. Unfortunately, this applies to ads, too, whether you think they're a good thing or not. Soon, Europes four biggest telecommunication companies--Germany's Deutsche Telekom DK, France's Orange, Spain's Telefonica, and the UK's Vodafone Group--will...

Google Rolling Out Privacy Sandbox Beta on Android 13 Devices

Google announced on Tuesday that it's officially rolling out Privacy Sandbox on Android in beta to eligible mobile devices running Android 13. "The Privacy Sandbox Beta provides new APIs that are designed with privacy at the core, and don't use identifiers that can track your activity across apps...

Gootkit Malware Adopts New Tactics to Attack Healthcare and Finance Firms

The Gootkit malware is prominently going after healthcare and finance organizations in the U.S., U.K., and Australia, according to new findings from Cybereason. The cybersecurity firm said it investigated a Gootkit incident in December 2022 that adopted a new method of deployment, with the actors...

Stalkerware-type app developers fined by NY Attorney General

Stalkerware is a huge problem when it comes to intrusion into peoples personal lives. "Friends", strangers, family members, abusive spouses and many more can potentially dabble in this malignant pastime and cause all manner of trouble for their target. Thanks to the New York Attorney Generals...

Malware Delivered through Google Search

Criminals using Google search ads to deliver malware isnt new, but Ars Technica declared that the problem has become much worse recently. The surge is coming from numerous malware families, including AuroraStealer, IcedID, Meta Stealer, RedLine Stealer, Vidar, Formbook, and XLoader. In the past,...

Google sponsored ads malvertising targets password manager

We have recently written about malvertising campaigns that leverage Google paid advertisements to try and trick people into downloading malware instead of the software they were looking for. This malware then stole login credentials from the affected system. Now, our researchers found that the...

Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named...

Over 4,500 WordPress Sites Hacked to Redirect Visitors to Sketchy Ad Pages

A massive campaign has infected over 4,500 WordPress websites as part of a long-running operation that's been believed to be active since at least 2017. According to GoDaddy-owned Sucuri, the infections involve the injection of obfuscated JavaScript hosted on a malicious domain named...

Consumer privacy and social media

Looking at the privacy related stories of 2022, its not hard to see that much of the focus was on the social media giants. Banning TikTok is slowly becoming a trend among US states. Google and Facebooks owner Meta was fined on several occasions for amounts that would have put other companies out ...

Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Targeted Over 11 Million Devices with 1,700 Spoofed Apps

Researchers have shut down an "expansive" ad fraud scheme that spoofed more than 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted roughly 11 million devices. "VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack...

Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Targeted Over 11 Million Devices with 1,700 Spoofed Apps

Researchers have shut down an "expansive" ad fraud scheme that spoofed more than 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted roughly 11 million devices. "VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack...

Google sponsored ads lead to rogue imitation sites

Theres a big push in rogue advert land at the moment, with multiple forms of bogus websites being used as bait to rob people of their logins and funds. This story first came to light a few days ago, with news of a well known cryptocurrency fan "NFT God" being caught out by a bogus video recording...

Rhadamanthys: A New Evasive Information Stealer

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary Rhadamanthys Evasive Infostealer is spread through phishing emails and prevalent Google ads that lead to fake download pages for popular workforce software...

Google Ads Malware Wipes NFT Influencer’s Crypto Wallet

By Habiba Rashid NFT influencer @NFTGOD downloaded malware through Google Ads while attempting to download OBS, an open-source video streaming software. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Google Ads Malware Wipes NFT Influencers Crypto Wallet...

PT-2023-12265 · Johnson Controls · Metasys Ads/Adx/Oas

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Johnson Controls Metasys ADS/ADX/OAS versions prior to 10.1.6 Johnson Controls Metasys ADS/ADX/OAS versions prior to 11.0.3 Description: An Insufficiently Protected Credentials issue allows API calls to expose credentials in plain text under...

CVE-2021-36204

The CVE-2021-36204 vulnerability affects Johnson Controls Metasys ADS/ADX/OAS Servers: versions 10.x prior to 10.1.6 and 11.x prior to 11.0.3. Root cause is Insufficiently Protected Credentials, allowing API calls to expose plaintext credentials. Impact is high (confidentiality and total impact o...

FBI warns of imposter ads in search results

The FBI has issued a public notice which includes advice to block adverts. Why? Lets take a look. The bogus advert tightrope Its no secret that rogue ads have been a particular plague on the Internet for as far back as we can remember. From irritating pop ups and spinning "Youve won a prize"...