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WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin

Categories: Threat Intelligence

Tags: ad fraud

Tags: popunder

Tags: ads

Tags: fraud

Tags: wordpress

Tags: plugins

Popunders are the ideal vehicle to serve ad fraud. In this case, we investigate a scheme where a webpage you can’t see is loading a bunch of ads while code mimics user activity by scrolling and visiting links.

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Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Vodafone

Tags: Orange

Tags: Deutsche Telekom

Tags: Telefónica

Tags: TrustPid

Tags: Wolfie Christl

Tags: Aram Zucker-Scharff

The EU Commission has greenlit the merge of four EU telco giants to offer millions of subscribers a different kind of targeted ads.

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Update now! February’s Patch Tuesday tackles three zero-days

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: patch Tuesday

Tags: Microsoft

Tags: Apple

Tags: Adobe

Tags: SAP

Tags: Citrix

Tags: Cisco

Tags: Atlassian

Tags: Google

Tags: Mozilla

Tags: Forta

Tags: OpenSSH

Tags: CVE-2023-21823

Tags: CVE-2023-21715

Tags: OneNote

Tags: CVE-2023-23376

Tags: CVE-2023-21706

Tags: CVE-2023-21707

Tags: CVE-2023-21529

Tags: CVE-2023-21716

Tags: CVE-2023-23378

Tags: CVE-2023-22501

Tags: CVE-2023-24486

Tags: CVE-2023-24484

Tags: CVE-2023-24484

Tags: CVE-2023-24483

Tags: CVE-2023-25136

Tags: GoAnywhere

Microsoft has released updates to patch three zero-days and lots of other vulnerabilities and so have several other vendors

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Update now! Apple patches vulnerabilities in MacOS and iOS

Categories: Apple

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Tags: Apple

Tags: macOS Ventura

Tags: 13.2.1

Tags: iOS

Tags: iPadOS

Tags: 16.3.1

Tags: CVE-2023-23514

Tags: CVE-2023-23522

Tags: CVE-2023-23529

Tags: use after free

Tags: type confusion

Apple has released patches for macOS Ventura, iPadOs, and iOS. Among the patched vulnerabilities is a WebKit vulnerability which may have been exploited in the wild.

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