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A Look Into Malvertising Attacks Targeting The UK

Fake advertisers abuse legitimate UK brands and fool everyone. They use clever disguises to push booby-trapped adverts. Criminals steal registrants credentials to create a rogue URL that points to their own server. Fingerprinting code is used to reveal a nefarious intent to identify real victims and eliminate those running security tools, the latter being of no interest to the criminals. The UK malvertising campaign is of a rather large size, just after the US one. We have also spotted specific campaigns targeting Canadians, Australians and a similar modandi.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2016/03/a-look-into-malvertising-attacks-targeting-the-uk/

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