A malvertising campaign that affected users all over the globe was recently brought to a halt following the cooperation between Cisco Talos and GoDaddy.
Every day there are tens of different cyber-crime campaigns affecting users. Just to name a few, we have
AdGholas, EITest, VirtualDonna, GooNky, Darkleech, Pseudo-Darkleech, wordJS, and more.
Behind these campaigns are cyber-crime groups that hack websites and/or create malicious ads in order to drive traffic (users) to special servers called "gates."
These gates check the user's browser and OS, and if certain criteria is met, they redirect him to another server called the "landing page" where an exploit kit tries to infect the user with malware by using vulnerabilities in the outdated software detected by the gates.
