Publishers Targeted by GhostCat Malware

mood · Oct 1, 2019

Publishers Targeted by GhostCat Malware
October 1, 2019
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/publishers-targeted-by-ghostcat/

A malicious campaign that waged 13 attacks against hundreds of well-known publishers has been identified and put down by The Media Trust.
Rather appropriately for the Halloween season, the malware was given the name GhostCat-3PC by researchers in the Trust's Digital Security & Operations (DSO) team.

GhostCat-3PC ran behind an ad that used advanced, obfuscated code and delivery patterns to evade detection by the traditional signature-based ad blockers used by many of the publishers.
The team discovered the malware in late August and observed it escalate its attack until well into September.

"What makes GhostCat-3PC unique is the scale of this highly orchestrated campaign, the sophistication of obfuscation techniques to outsmart security tools, and what appears to be an attempt to test and track the response of signature-based security defenses," Mike Bittner, The Media Trust's associate director of digital security and operations, told Infosecurity Magazine.
The Media Trust sees an average of 1,000 active, unrelated incidents in any 24-hour period, and more than 170 newly minted malicious domains each day.
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GhostCat-3PC: Malware Targets Well-Known Publishers and Slips Through Their Blockers
The Media Trust: "Incident Analysis - GhostCat-3PC" (PDF - 0.98 MB): https://mediatrust.com/sites/default/files/2019-10/Incident%20Analysis%20-%20GhostCat-3PC.pdf

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Publishers Targeted by GhostCat Malware

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