March 29, 2016 | BY Jérôme Segura
Domain shadowing techniques combined with fingerprinting continues to be an effective method to bypass security screenings and scanners from detecting advanced malvertising attacks. Just last week, some users visiting classifieds site Gumtree were exposed to malware via this very technique.
The latest victims from malvertising are two popular social sites: likes.com and livejournal.com. The former attracts close to 110M visitors a month, while the latter has over 140M.* It is worth reiterating that these malvertising attacks happen automatically and that users do not have to click on the ad banner to get infected.
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shadowing techniques has been around for awhile its just being used more and more
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