Manipulated ads around AI including malware
Cyber criminals these days are trend-savvy scammers! They cleverly use the hype about artificial intelligence for their own purposes: they place banking Trojans and info stealers in manipulated ads about AI. Sophos forensic experts took a closer look at this malvertising case. Sophos X-Ops has seen a resurgence in the use of malvertising in various malware campaigns since the beginning of this year, both in its telemetry and in the increased surfacing of the topic on underground forums. Malvertising, the term for a method of injecting malicious code into digital advertisements, is not a new topic, nor is it a new TTP for attackers. malvertising…
