Rogue Ads Redirect Visitors

Ads are everywhere. They generate revenue for site owners and can present related content to the website being visited. As detailed in previous articles, bad actors often take advantage of that functionality. Quite often rogue ad networks will be used to pull down malicious content, but recently we’ve seen a campaign where the threat actors are utilizing popular services like Github and Bitbucket to store their rogue ad sources.

The injection

WordPress and other CMS will often utilize plugins to insert header content directly from the admin panel, making it easy for developers and non-developers alike to add functionality to their sites.

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