Entries by Dr. Muharib Al-Suhairi

Porn Site Becomes Hub for Malvertising Campaigns

Pornhub, a top-20 ranked U.S. website according to Alexa, was serving up large-scale malvertising attacks exposing millions of visitors to click-fraud. Behind the attacks is the KovCoreG Group, best known for distributing Kovter click-fraud malware. The campaigns, spotted by researchers at Proofpoint, also impacted a number of other major websites that used the TrafficJunky advertising […]

Latin American ATM Thieves Turning to Hacking

MADRID—ATM jackpotting is hardly a novelty act in Latin America where criminals are more than ever connecting with hackers to figure out how to more efficiently steal money from an automated teller than, say, by using a stick of dynamite. No, it’s not uncommon to hear about thefts in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Peru and elsewhere […]

CRYPTOCURRENCY MINING MALWARE HOSTED IN AMAZON S3 BUCKET

As Bitcoin’s price continues to soar beyond $4,000 USD per, cybercriminals are responding in kind by using techniques long reserved for adware, click-fraud and spying to now drop cryptocurrency miners onto compromised computers. The latest incident comes from a rash of drive-by downloads that are being used to install coin-mining malware called Zminer, according to […]