Believe it or not, many do their gift shopping AFTER Christmas. Why? Because the deals are in plenty. Cyber shopping is no different, but……. Seemingly innocent "white pages," including an elaborate Star Wars-themed site, are bypassing Google's malvertising filters, showing up high in search results to lure users to second-stage phishing sites. Threat actors appear to have found yet another innovative use case for artificial intelligence in malicious campaigns: to create decoy ads for foolin
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A new malvertising campaign has been found to employ fake sites that masquerade as legitimate Windows news portal to propagate a malicious installer for a popular system profiling tool called CPU-Z. This incident is a part of a larger malvertising campaign that targets other utilities like Notepad++, Citrix, and VNC Viewer as seen in its infrastructure (domain names) and cloaking templates used to avoid detection.
While malvertising campaigns are known to set up replica sites advertising widely
