March 17, 2016 Are Security Vendors Using Shady Traffic-delivery Tactics? While surfing the internet with a mobile device, we’ve observed advertisements by Moiety Media serving legitimate antivirus (AV) software (Qihoo 360 security for mobile) to the public via Scareware techniques. This delivery method is concerning because it’s scaring people into downloading legitimate AV software from Google Play directly from affiliate download links—a method of traffic […]
January 27, 2016 The Anatomy of KTS Malicious Traffic Distribution Recently, Forcepoint Security Labs shared information on drive-by download activity impacting a compromised website pushing visitors to an instance of the Rig Exploit Kit. They identified content on the compromised site that resulted in the inclusion of malicious redirection content from an intermediary site, and subsequently pushed visitors to the exploit kit to compromise the […]
January 14, 2016 Bad News for Ads: Forbes Malvertising Attack Bolsters Ad Blocking Malvertising is a massive, now mainstream problem. In August of 2015 we reported that malvertising was up 260%, on a prorated basis, between the first half of 2015 (450k) compared to all of 2014 (250k). Our numbers now show that malvertising is up over 300%, year over year, between 2014 (250k) and 2015 (1mil). The […]
