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Researchers have shut down an "expansive" ad fraud scheme that spoofed more than 1,700 applications from 120 publishers and impacted roughly 11 million devices. "VASTFLUX was a malvertising attack that injected malicious JavaScript code into digital ad creatives, allowing the fraudsters to stack numerous invisible video ad players behind one another and register ad views," fraud prevention firm
Categories: News Categories: Privacy Tags: Privacy Tags: browser Tags: VPN Tags: BrowserGuard For every level of privacy awareness, there are layers you can use to protect yourself. Here are four suggestions. (Read more...) The post 4 ways to protect your privacy while scrolling appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Categories: News Tags: Google Tags: Rust Tags: Chromium Tags: Mailchimp Tags: SweepWizard Tags: bossware Tags: TikTok Tags: surveillance firm Tags: Voyager Labs Tags: TracketPacer Tags: Facebook Tags: Instagram Tags: Vice Society Tags: Liquor Control Board of Ontario Tags: Zoho ManageEngine Tags: GitHub Tags: LastPass Tags: Git flaw Tags: ransomware Tags: credit card fraud The most interesting security related news from the week of January 16-22. (Read more...) The post A week in security (January 16—22) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
By Owais Sultan This article will highlight some of the most significant Microsoft innovations that could make an impact in 2023 and beyond. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Innovations for 2023: What to Look Out for This Year
Threat actors associated with the Roaming Mantis attack campaign have been observed delivering an updated variant of their patent mobile malware known as Wroba to infiltrate Wi-Fi routers and undertake Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking. Kaspersky, which carried out an analysis of the malicious artifact, said the feature is designed to target specific Wi-Fi routers located in South Korea.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5815-1 - It was discovered that a race condition existed in the Android Binder IPC subsystem in the Linux kernel, leading to a use-after-free vulnerability. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. David Leadbeater discovered that the netfilter IRC protocol tracking implementation in the Linux Kernel incorrectly handled certain message payloads in some situations. A remote attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service or bypass firewall filtering.
By Habiba Rashid According to PayPal, hackers managed to access the personal information of 34,942 users; however, no transactions were performed from the breached accounts. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PayPal Notifies 35,000 Users of Data Breach
By Waqas The ad fraud was discovered while the researchers were investigating an iOS application that had been heavily impacted by an app spoofing attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Massive Ad Fraud Scheme Shut Down: 11 Million Phones Targeted