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Fake jquery campaign leads to malvertising and ad fraud schemes

Thousands of compromised websites are injected with a reference to an external JavaScript called jquery.js. The end goal is to monetize via full-screen adverts that pop up on your phone at regular intervals. Malwarebytes users are protected against this campaign both on desktop and mobile. We believe the primary goal of the fake jquery campaign is to. monetize from mobile users. This would explain the level of filtering involved to hide non-qualified traffic. We were served a bogus adult site that requires users to download an app in order to play the videos.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/threat-analysis/2019/06/fake-jquery-campaign-leads-to-malvertising-and-ad-fraud-schemes/

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