July 26, 2023

Into the tank with Nitrogen

The element originally known as “foul air” stinks up computers as a new initial-access campaign exhibiting some uncommon techniques

Threat Research

July 20, 2023

Bad ad fad leads to IcedID, Gozi infections

Malvertising campaigns using paid ads result in infostealer and backdoor attacks

Security OperationsThreat Research

May 01, 2020

Google fights spammy extensions with new Chrome Web Store policy

The policies are specifically meant to fight spam, but they outlaw tactics taken by malicious extensions as well, including fake reviews.

Naked Security

January 24, 2020

9th Methbot suspect arrested in massive clickfraud ring

How Sergey Denisoff described his early ad-buying ventures: buying BS popup traffic and reselling it to buyers demanding BS traffic.

Naked Security

November 07, 2019

WordPress sites hit by malvertising

An old piece of malware is storming the WordPress community, enabling its perpetrators to take control of sites and inject code of their choosing.

Naked Security

September 02, 2019

WordPress sites are being backdoored with rogue admin users

A malvertising campaign has evolved to give hackers control of entire sites.

Naked Security

May 29, 2019

Three tech-support scammers charged with ripping off the elderly

The defendants allegedly pulled in over $1.3 million over the course of about six years for unnecessary and undelivered tech support.

Naked Security

May 08, 2019

Malvertiser behind 100+ million bad ads indicted in the US

A Ukrainian and his gang allegedly smeared malvertising for 4.5 years and tried to rent out a botnet full of infected computers.

Naked Security

April 18, 2019

Chrome flaw on iOS leads to 500 million unwanted pop-up ads

If you own an iOS device and use the Chrome browser, you may have encountered some strange-looking pop-up ads in the past week.

Naked Security