Phantom Stores: Retail Impersonation Spreads Ahead of Black Friday Powered by Video Ads and Modular ‘Holiday Skins’ Kit In the frenzied weeks leading up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Ad Tech’s busiest season, a new cluster of phantom storefronts has…
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Phantom Stores: Retail Impersonation Spreads Ahead of Black Friday Powered by Video Ads and Modular…
Phantom Stores: Retail Impersonation Spreads Ahead of Black Friday Powered by Video Ads and Modular ‘Holiday Skins’ Kit In the frenzied weeks leading up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Ad Tech’s busiest season, a new cluster of phantom storefronts has…
The Curious Case Of MutantBedrog’s Trusted-Types CSP Bypass
MutantBedrog is a malvertiser that caught our attention early summer ’04 for their highly disruptive forced redirect campaigns and the unique JavaScript payload that they use to fingerprint devices and dispatch invasive redirections. While a comprehensive report on MutantBedrog’s TTPs…
ScamClub’s Deceptive Landing Pages
Recently, I was involved in publishing Confiant’s ScamClub: Threat Report Q1-Q2 2023. During our investigation into this malvertising threat, we found ScamClub utilizing RTB integration with ad exchanges to push bid responses upstream to forcefully redirect the victim’s browser from…