Category: Cybercriminals

The SlopAds Operation: A New Level of Ad Fraud

A sprawling advertising-fraud operation known as SlopAds hid behind a storefront of hundreds of seemingly innocuous Android apps and ballooned into a global enterprise. Researchers at Satori (HUMAN) recently described how 224 programs amassed...

The Hidden Danger of Plain-Text Backup Codes

Huntress has published a detailed account of an incident in which attackers, having exploited a vulnerable SonicWall VPN, gained access to the management console and nearly stripped the organization of its defensive capabilities by...