"Malvertising Campaign Abducts Half a Billion Chrome on iOS Sessions to Push Fake Ads"
Confidant, an IT security firm, recently published a blog post in which the details of a malvertising campaign, dubbed eGobbler, are presented. According to researchers, eGobbler, abused a vulnerability in Chrome for iOS. Through the exploitation of this vulnerability, hackers were able to push fake advertisements to 500 million user sessions as well as hijack sessions. This article continues to discuss the eGobbler malvertising campaign in relation to its targets, techniques, and discovery by researchers, along with the need to create an industry safeguard against malvertising.
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