A series of malicious campaigns have been targeting popular apps and games as a lure to trick users into downloading a new backdoor and an undocumented malicious Google Chrome extension. The attacks are believed to have commenced in late 2018, with intermittent activity observed towards the end of 2019 and through early 2020, followed by fresh spikes since April 2021, while mainly singling out users in Canada, the U.S., Australia, Italy, Spain, and Norway. The malware payloads are attributed to an unknown actor that goes by the alias “magnat,” Cisco Talos said.”]
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/new-malvertising-campaigns-spreading.html