Security News Malvertising Campaign Finds a Way Around Ad Blockers

[frogboy]

Ad blockers, our last hope against the onslaught of malvertising campaigns, appear to have fallen, as today, Malwarebytes published new research detailing a malvertising campaign that successfully bypasses ad blockers to deliver their malicious payload.

This malvertising campaign is named RoughTed based on the initial malicious domain at which it was found back in March 2017, but Jérôme Segura, the Malwarebytes security researcher who came across it, says there are clues to show that RoughTed has been active for over a year.

The campaign is very complex and well designed (from a crook's standpoint), as it leverages multiple tricks of the trade, most of which have allowed it to grow undetected in the shadows for so much time.

The word that describes RoughTed the best is "diversity." The operators of this malvertising campaign not only feature traffic from different types of sources, but also include different user fingerprinting techniques, and very different malicious payloads.

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[Winter Soldier]

Great sharing @frogboy

At the end of the day I do hope the only thing they will not manage to bypass is our mental attitude, being always suspicious when we see online contents or ads.
But even this may not be enough, my habit is always using the good old Sandboxie that could isolate malicious payloads.
I don't know if malcoders sooner or later will be able to circumvent SB, but for the moment it has never disappointed me.