Mispadu banking trojan uses a McDonald’s malvertising tactic to steal payment-card data and online banking information. Mispadu, which was written in Delphi, targets Brazil and Mexico. It uses pop-up windows and contains backdoor functionality.
Ads and email messages…
Google’s notice about its intention to restrict user’s data to advertisers comes into a 404 Error. Just five days after it was published on the blog, the news can not be accessed anymore.
After many critics, Google announced it would be taking one more step to…
Black Friday threats are present, besides some incredible bargains. It is the time of the year when people spend billions of dollars to buy cheaper stuff. We all get excited and try to get the best deals, but forget about the huge threats. As we spend lots of money online…
Facebook announced that the US Government demands for more user data then ever. The demand increased by 16% during the first half of this year compared to the second half of last year. Thus, this is the highest number of government demands it has received since…
Security researchers tracked activities of a new group of financially-motivated hackers. So, the hackers target a few companies and organizations in Germany, Italy, and the United States. And they try to infect them with backdoor, banking Trojan, or ransomware malware.
The…
Facebook pay, a new payment service will let anyone send or receive money without fees. At the same time, Facebook mentioned that payment data across Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger can be used for ads. So, you should pay with your data to use it. The service…
Facebook announced it would not remove political ads before the UK’s General Election. The decision comes although there were complaints that the Conservative Party is trying to influence users with misleading information.
Twitter announced plans to ban political…
Two former Twitter staff were recruited by the Saudi Arabian governement to spy the critics of the regime. The prosecutors claim that two US citizens of Saudi origin accessed personal information of over 6.000 accounts in 2015. These included Omar Abdulaziz, a governement…
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…
