On June 24, we observed a new campaign distributing a stealer targeting Mac users via malicious Google ads for the Arc browser. This is the second time in the past …
Author: Malwarebytes
Back in February, we reported on malicious ads related to utility bills (electricity, gas) that direct victims to call centers where scammers will collect their identity and try to extort …
In the past couple of weeks, we have observed an ongoing campaign targeting system administrators with fraudulent ads for popular system utilities. The malicious ads are displayed as sponsored results …
Most of the malicious search ads we have seen have originated from Google, but threat actors are also abusing other search engines. Microsoft Bing is probably the second best target …
Malware loaders (also known as droppers or downloaders) are a popular commodity in the criminal underground. Their primary function is to successfully compromise a machine and deploy one or multiple …
February was a particularly busy month for search-based malvertising with the number of incidents we documented almost doubling. We saw similar payloads being dropped but also a few new ones …
Rhadamanthys, an infostealer, continues to be distributed through malvertising campaigns targeting business users. Threat actors are using decoy websites and impersonating well-known brands to trick users into downloading malware.…
It was just a little over a year ago that the Rhadamanthys stealer was first publicly seen distributed via malicious ads. Throughout 2023, we observed a continuation in malvertising chains …