The Latest in IT Security

Posts Tagged ‘pay per click’

 In a recent blog entry we covered how scammers continue to publish malicious apps on Google Play and how the Android app market is struggling to keep itself clean.In many cases it is difficult to quickly identify any malicious intent of applications and in-depth analysis is often required to be truly safe-a challenge for Google […]

Read more ...

A currently ongoing, click-jacking driven spam campaign is circulating across Facebook, with the affected users further spreading the adf.ly links on the Walls of their friends, in between tagging them, with the cybercriminal/cybercriminals behind the campaign, earning revenue through the adf.ly pay-per-click (PPC) monetization scheme. Redirection chain: hxxp://adf.ly/Qrd2f?cid=51c3e798aff9a -> hxxp://rihannaofficialvideo.blogspot.de/?231514 -> hxxp://www.smilegags.com/watch/jack.php?action=connect&cid=51c3e798aff9a -> hxxp://lolzbestpic.com MD5s […]

Read more ...

The family added to the February release of the Malicious Software Removal Tool is Win32/Sirefef. Win32/Sirefef is a highly prevalent complex multi-component family which continues to evolve. The payload for current variants may include such actions as modifying browser search engine results, generating pay-per-click revenue and performing Bitcoin mining on an affected computer.   The first detection […]

Read more ...


Categories

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2024
WHITE PAPERS

Mission-Critical Broadband – Why Governments Should Partner with Commercial Operators:
Many governments embrace mobile network operator (MNO) networks as ...

ARA at Scale: How to Choose a Solution That Grows With Your Needs:
Application release automation (ARA) tools enable best practices in...

The Multi-Model Database:
Part of the “new normal” where data and cloud applications are ...

Featured

Archives

Latest Comments