"AdGholas' malvertising spreads while world is occupied with ransomware Malwarebytes has observed AdGholas pushing drive-by download attacks using the Astrum EK... AdGholas, says Malwarebytes in a blog post, is ‘playing whack-a-mole with the ad industry' to distribute malware using the Astrum exploit kit. Although banking Trojans were being used by Astrum for a long time, new AdGholas/Astrum infection chains have been installing malware... Malwarebytes saw a wave of drive-by download attacks distributed worldwide on the 28th June, pushing the Astrum kit. The firm found that these attacks were associated with AdGholas via a dummy website (expert-essays[dot]com). Fake banners for ‘expert essays' were designed to trick advertising agencies, and hid code to exploit users who simply visited the websites that the banners were hosted on..." https://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/news/301...reads-while-world-is-occupied-with-ransomware
