Large malvertising campaign hits popular Dutch websites

FanJ · Apr 11, 2016

From the Fox-IT blog on 11 April 2016 :

https://blog.fox-it.com/2016/04/11/large-malvertising-campaign-hits-popular-dutch-websites/

On Sunday April 10th the Fox-IT Security Operations Center (SOC) started to see an increase of exploit kit related incidents. The incidents originated from a large malvertising campaign hitting the Netherlands. The list of affected websites spreads across most of the popular Dutch websites. In total we’ve now seen at least 288 websites being affected. To give an impression of the impact, the list of affected websites includes:
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There are several big Dutch sites on that list!

The malvertising is occurring through an advertisement platform which is actively used on the above mentioned websites. From the websites, external scripts are loaded which in turn redirect further towards the exploit kit. We’ve observed the Angler Exploit Kit being active on these redirects during this campaign. We have not seen any successful infections at our customer yet.
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This news made it to the News on Dutch Public TV.

FanJ · Apr 11, 2016

I just saw that Minimalist just posted it too in reply # 6 in thread https://www.wilderssecurity.com/threads/malvertising-campaigns-are-becoming-harder-to-detect.384193/

Link there to http://arstechnica.com/security/201...-rash-of-malicious-ads-that-attack-end-users/
Thanks Minimalist!

Minimalist · Apr 11, 2016

Thank you for your link also, FanJ.

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