High-volume eGobbler malvertising campaign exploits zero-day Chrome bug

A malicious actor has been leveraging a Google Chrome browser exploit to deliver malvertisements to iOS users, including a campaign earlier this month during which 500 million user sessions were exposed to a session hijacking attack.

Dubbed eGobbler by researchers at Confiant, the threat actor from April 6-10 ran a massive operation consisting of eight individual campaigns and more than 30 fake creatives. Each mini-campaign lasted around two days and had its own unique targeting, although most affected publishers were based in the U.S.

In a company blog post, Confiant researcher Eliya Stein said the operation was among “the top three massive malvertising campaigns that we have seen in the last 18 months.”

80 Eye-Opening Cyber Security Statistics for 2019

Cyber attacks have never been more prevalent than they will be in 2019 It’s an interesting and challenging time to be working in the cyber security industry. By and large, research indicates that cybercrime is on the rise — news headlines support these findings as major companies like Marriott, Equifax, Yahoo, and Facebook find themselves in the crosshairs of cyber attacks. Even sacrosanct governmental election processes the world over are not excluded from falling prey to cybercriminals and are a part of the increasing statistics about cyber security and cyber attacks.

Phishing threats 2019: The experts tell all

It is becoming better understood that, in order to stop phishing attacks, we need to be able to see them coming. At the same time, it also helps to have an idea around which phishing and malware threats we should be keeping an eye out for.

This is according to Anton Jacobsz, CEO at value-added distributor Networks Unlimited Africa who was referencing a report shared by Cofense (formerly PhishMe), a leading provider of intelligent phishing defence solutions.