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Malvertising Payload Targets Home Routers

Malvertising or malvertisements are a malicious variety of online advertisements generally used to spread malware. The latest tactic seems to take the conquer one, conquer all idiom very seriously by targeting ad networks in a concept known as malvertising. The malicious code was heavily encoded and injected in the ad body. The payload is trying to change your home routers DNS settings and force a reboot. The attack was being hosted on Google’s googlesyndication.com network. The code is hard to tell if this was intentional to evade detection, but the code is there.”]

Source: https://blog.sucuri.net/2014/10/malvertising-payload-targets-home-routers.html

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