A report by Trustwave has exposed a new malvertising campaign that has succeeded in putting ads that redirect to the Angler Exploit Kit on to “very popular websites” around the world. Malwarebytes has since revealed these websites include MSN, NY Times, BBC and NFL.com. The Angler exploit kit continues to innovate and come up with new ways of infecting victims, this time acquiring an expired domain of a small advertising company that provides it with high quality traffic from popular websites. Once the victim has been successfully exploited they are hit with a double punch of both the Bedep Trojan and the TeslaCrypt ransomware.
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