The Yahoo advertisement network has been selected by cybercriminals to carry out a malvertising type of attack on unsuspecting users, by steering them to malicious pages serving a strain of CryptoWall ransomware. When the users click on an advertisement that is connected to the crooks server, they are directed to a web page that delivers […]
Recently, we have seen many Facebook posts with links leading to applications called Give Hearts, Drink It Up and Daily Horoscope. The applications are very popular – they have over 5 million monthly users – and are managed by the same provider called App Discovery Engine. The posts attracted my attention because they seem to […]
Last week, I was taking a look at some traffic when an interesting domain name jumped out at me. (Well, it didn't literally jump out at me, of course. I'd probably describe its behavior more along the lines of "a needle trying to hide behind a bunch of hay"…) The domain was advancedprotector.com, and since […]
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