The Hidden Life of Cheap Streaming Devices An inexpensive set-top box connected to your television could be generating illicit revenue long after the screen goes dark, entirely without your knowledge. Cybersecurity researchers at Bitsight...
Researchers have uncovered a network of malicious extensions inside the official Microsoft Edge store. These add-ons masqueraded as useful tools and operated for years alongside legitimate extensions. Disguised as ad blockers, weather widgets, video...
A smartphone rests securely in a pocket, its screen darkened, its owner initiating nothing; yet at this very moment, the device is silently generating illicit revenue for fraudsters. Experts at the IAS Threat Lab...
A sophisticated Android malware strain has emerged, harnessing machine learning to orchestrate clandestine advertising fraud through deceptive click-through generation. Identified by the forensic analysts at Dr.Web, this malicious agent masquerades as innocuous gaming applications...
Researchers at Koi Security have identified a new malicious campaign dubbed GhostPoster, targeting users of the Firefox browser. As part of the operation, attackers distributed extensions that appeared harmless and even amassed tens of...
For more than a decade, the Vane Viper network has remained one of the largest clandestine players in the sphere of malicious online advertising. The latest report from Infoblox, prepared in collaboration with Guardio...
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...
Google has filed a lawsuit against the unidentified operators of the malicious botnet BadBox 2.0, accusing them of orchestrating a large-scale advertising fraud scheme that directly targeted the company’s own platforms. According to the...
