Sat.Dec 31, 2022

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Malvertising campaign MasquerAds abuses Google Ads

Security Affairs

Experts warn of a new Malvertising Campaign abusing Google Ads that targets users searching for popular software. Guardio Labs researchers uncovered a malvertising campaign, tracked as MasquerAds and attributed to a threat actor known as Vermux, that is abusing Google Ads to target users that are searching for popular software. The campaign aims at delivering tainted versions of popular software that deploy malicious payloads on the user’s machine, including info-stealing malware such as R

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Update Android Right Now to Fix a Scary Remote-Execution Flaw

WIRED Threat Level

Plus: Patches for Apple iOS 16, Google Chrome, Windows 10, and more.

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Personal health information of 42M Americans leaked between 2016 and 2021

Security Affairs

Crooks have had access to the medical records of 42 million Americans since 2016 as the number of hacks on healthcare organizations doubled. Medical records of 42 million Americans are being sold on the dark web since 2016, this information comes from cyberattacks on healthcare providers. Researchers from Jama Network analyzed trends in ransomware attacks on US hospitals, clinics, and health care delivery organizations between 2016 and 2021.