RoughTed malvertising campaign bypassing ad blockers

https://www.scmagazine.com/roughted-malvertising-campaign-bypassing-ad-blockers/article/664221/

 

Another article on this here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/malvertising-campaign-finds-a-way-around-ad-blockers/

 

Interesting stuff, so ad-blockers won't always keep you safe. Not a surprise because I sometimes also still get to see ads on certain sites.

 

Adblockers usually rely on lists and if some resource is not on black-list it won't be blocked.

 

@gorhill filed a commit 2 days ago.

 

There are not so many new ADs actually, most (malware included) use Google/Bing/Doubleclick/etc's cycles, which are blacklisted by default, unless the user allow acceptable ADs.