Malware Targeting Smartphones via Three DSP Providers

guest · Oct 30, 2018

Malware Targeting Smartphones via Three DSP Providers
October 30, 2018
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/malware-targeting-smartphones-via/

In today’s blog post, Michael Bittner, digital security and operations manager at The Media Trust, revealed that the campaign involved third-party code that enabled smart malware delivery. The malware, dubbed JuiceChecker-3PC by The Media Trust's digital security and operations (DSO) team, was able to bypass scanning using Base64 and has been seen in millions of page views over the last three weeks.

After bypassing the scanning, the malware checked to see whether the user agent was mobile specific, whether the battery level ranged between 20–76% and whether the referrer was specified. If these conditions were met, the malware triggered a redirect in which the ad viewer was delivered to a malicious site.

"[...] the malware was inserted into creative posing as a legitimate ad for one of the largest department store retailers in the US. [...]"

“Given this malware’s level of encoding, most blockers and conventional scanning techniques continue to let the malware pass through and impact millions of site and mobile app users. [...]"
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Brummelchen · Nov 1, 2018

What's DSP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demand-side_platform

in german
http://www.digitalwiki.de/dsp-demand-side-platform/
https://www.ionos.de/digitalguide/o...et/so-funktioniert-eine-demand-side-platform/

what i dont read that how effective adblockers are against those attacks.

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