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Top Articles:

  • Ransomware Recovery Firms Who Secretly Pay Hackers
  • Three men cop to $21 million vishing and smishing scheme
  • Google Analytics as a data exfiltration channel
  • WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin

WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin

Published: 2023-02-16 06:00:00

Popularity: 12

Author: None

Keywords:

  • Threat Intelligence
  • ad fraud
  • popunder
  • ads
  • fraud
  • wordpress
  • plugins
  • Categories: Threat Intelligence Tags: ad fraud Tags: popunder Tags: ads Tags: fraud Tags: wordpress Tags: plugins Popunders are the ideal vehicle to serve ad fraud. In this case, we investigate a scheme where a webpage you can't see is loading a bunch of ads while code mimics user activity by scrolling and visiting links. (Read more...) The post WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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    Google Analytics as a data exfiltration channel

    Published: 2020-06-22 10:03:42

    Popularity: 37

    Author: Pavel Shoshin

    Keywords:

  • Business
  • Enterprise
  • SMB
  • cardholder data
  • fraud
  • web skimming
  • Our experts uncovered a scheme to extract cardholder data using Google tools.

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    Ransomware Recovery Firms Who Secretly Pay Hackers

    Published: 2019-07-08 12:08:47

    Popularity: 266

    Author: Bruce Schneier

    Keywords:

  • fraud
  • hacking
  • ransomware
  • 🤖: "paying off attackers"

    ProPublica is reporting on companies that pretend to recover data locked up by ransomware, but just secretly pay the hackers and then mark up the cost to the victims....

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    Three men cop to $21 million vishing and smishing scheme

    Published: 2019-03-11 22:40:38

    Popularity: 47

    Author: Dan Goodin

    Keywords:

  • Biz & IT
  • fraud
  • personally identifiable information
  • phishin
  • smishing
  • Vishing
  • Phone-based scam may be low-tech, but it netted big bucks, prosecutors say.

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