A malvertising campaign exploited a fake advertisement and exposed users to the new Capesand exploit kit. The Capesand exploit kit operates by delivering malicious payload to the victim’s computer.
The malvertising campaign that presented users with a fake blog post…
We will all have more ads from Google both on YouTube and on Google Images. Google announced a new shopping advertisment option for Google Images and two new visual ad options for YouTube. As explained by the company,
this decision was made to expand the opportunities for…
Facebook announced it will limit the number of ads run by a page at any time. Evan Klein, software engineer at Facebook, explained in a post what will happen. “In mid 2020, we are implementing a limit on the number of ads each Page can run at the same time. The ad limits…
Cisco Talos released a study on the politically themed malware, used in everything from ransomware to remote access trojans (RAT). The study analysed a regular malicious spam campaign that used an executable named “Trump.exe”. The team discovered many similarly themed…
The BlueKeep (Windows Remote Desktop Services) vulnerability was exploited by attackers to deliver cryptocurrency mining malware.
Researchers say that BlueKeep, which was addressed in May, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code, by sending crafted Remote…
Firefox will hide the annoying notification popups, with the release of Firefox 72, in January 2020. This comes after the experiment Mozilla ran in April to see how users interact with notifications. Also, Mozilla looked at different ways of blocking notifications from being…
Your Chrome browser needs urgent update! The latest version was released on Halloween night. Google is warning its billions of users to immediately install the update, in order to patch two high severity vulnerabilities. One of these was actively exploited to hijack…
European authorities released a patch for the eIDAS system. The electronic Identification, ONEhandedness and trust Services is the official software package that government organizations run on servers to support eIDAS-friendly transactions. The system was created to conduct…
The padlock, a symbol of trust, is sometimes used by new types of malware to hide behind it. The green icon that you see at the top of your browser when visiting a website via a connection encrypted with a valid SSL/TLS certificate should not be mistaken with the…
“Malvertising” is a portmanteau of “malicious advertising,” which is the practice of using online ads to infect computers with various types of malware. Malware is defined as “a short for malicious software and refers to software programs designed to damage or do…
