Jerome Segura, a senior security researcher with Malwarebytes, was recently stumped by a cyber attack he was studying. It seemed to keep vanishing.
Segura often studies malvertising, which involves seeding ad networks with harmful online advertisements that then appear on websites, potentially delivering malware to a person’s computer.
It’s a particularly insidious type of attack, since a person merely has to view an advertisement to become infected if their computer has a software vulnerability.
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