The Evolving Tactics of Vidar Stealer: From Phishing Emails to Social Media

The notorious information-stealer known as Vidar is continuing to leverage popular social media services such as TikTok, Telegram, Steam, and Mastodon as an intermediate command-and-control C2 server. "When a user creates an account on an online platform, a unique account page that can be accesse...

Irish Regulators Fine Facebook $414 Million for Forcing Users to Accept Targeted Ads

The Irish Data Protection Commission DPC has fined Meta Platforms €390 million roughly $414 million over its handling of user data for serving personalized ads in what could be a major blow to its ad-fueled business model. To that end, the privacy regulator has ordered Meta Ireland to pay two fin...

Malware Distribution via Google PPC by IcedID Botnet Distributors

Threat Level Attack Report For a detailed threat advisory, download the pdf file here Summary The IcedID botnet has been using Google pay-per-click ads to distribute itself through malvertising attacks since December 2022. Malvertising involves the use of malicious ads that are displayed in searc...

New Malvertising Campaign via Google Ads Targets Users Searching for Popular Software

Users searching for popular software are being targeted by a new malvertising campaign that abuses Google Ads to serve trojanized variants that deploy malware, such as Raccoon Stealer and Vidar. The activity makes use of seemingly credible websites with typosquatted domain names that are surfaced...

PT-2022-7091 · Pi-Hole · Pi-Hole

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Pi-Hole affected versions not specified Description: The issue is related to a lack of validation in the code on a root server path: /admin/scripts/pi-hole/phpqueryads.php. This allows a potential threat actor to perform an unauthorized query...

Adult popunder campaign used in mainstream ad fraud scheme

This blog post was authored by Jerome Segura Online advertising is a multi billion dollar industry with projected spending to reach over 600 billion U.S. dollars for 2022. It's not surprising that criminals are trying their hardest to abuse this ecosystem in any way that they can. One of the...

CVE-2022-3427

The Corner Ad plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Cross-Site Request Forgery in versions up to, and including, 1.0.56. This is due to missing or incorrect nonce validation on its corneradsettingspage function. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to trigger the deletion of ads v...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2019-17228

includes/options.php in the motors-car-dealership-classified-listings aka Motors - Car Dealer & Classified Ads plugin through 1.4.0 for WordPress allows unauthenticated options changes...

Meta Takes Down Fake Facebook and Instagram Accounts Linked to Pro-U.S. Influence Operation

Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it took down a network of accounts and pages across Facebook and Instagram that were operated by people associated with the U.S. military to spread narratives that depicted the country in a favorable light in the Middle East and Central Asia. The network, which...

Royal Ransomware: New Threat Uses Google Ads and Cracked Software

By Habiba Rashid According to Microsoft, the Royal ransomware is now being spread by a threat actor known as DEV-0569. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Royal Ransomware: New Threat Uses Google Ads and Cracked Software...

Microsoft Warns of Hackers Using Google Ads to Distribute Royal Ransomware

A developing threat activity cluster has been found using Google Ads in one of its campaigns to distribute various post-compromise payloads, including the recently discovered Royal ransomware. Microsoft, which spotted the updated malware delivery method in late October 2022, is tracking the group...

CVE-2022-32776

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Advanced Ads GmbH Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin = 1.31.1 on WordPress...

CVE-2022-32776

Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Advanced Ads GmbH Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin = 1.31.1 on WordPress...

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Auth. admin+ Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability in Advanced Ads GmbH Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin = 1.31.1 on WordPress...

CVE-2022-32776

CVE-2022-32776 affects the WordPress plugin “Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense” 1.31.1, with references noting 1.32.0 or newer). The exploitation status is not detailed in the provided documents. Monitor for updates and apply the latest available version to mitigate risk.

WordPress plugin Advanced Ads 跨站脚本漏洞

WordPress and WordPress plugin are both products of the WordPress Foundation.WordPress is a blogging platform developed using the PHP language. The platform supports personal blog sites on PHP and MySQL servers.WordPress plugin is an application plugin. A security vulnerability exists in WordPres...

PT-2022-21458 · WordPress · Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & Adsense

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Advanced Ads – Ad Manager & AdSense plugin versions = 1.31.1 Description: The issue is related to an Authenticated Stored Cross-Site Scripting XSS vulnerability. This means that an attacker with admin privileges can inject malicious scripts...

Researchers Detail New Malware Campaign Targeting Indian Government Employees

The Transparent Tribe threat actor has been linked to a new campaign aimed at Indian government organizations with trojanized versions of a two-factor authentication solution called Kavach. "This group abuses Google advertisements for the purpose of malvertising to distribute backdoored versions ...

New streaming ad technology plays hide-and-seek with gamers

A new form of digital advertising is looking to make its way to you courtesy of video gaming. However, theres a rather peculiar twist involved. These ads wont appear in front of you while playing; in fact, theyre designed to trigger when someone else is in-game. The most baffling twist of all?...

Chrome Extensions Harboring Dormant Colors Malware Infect Over a Million PCs

By Waqas Among other capabilities, Dormant Colors malware can also inject ads into standard pages and append affiliate links to e-commerce websites to generate affiliate revenue. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Chrome Extensions Harboring Dormant Colors Malware Infect Ove...