~this week in security~ reports a hack that should remind consumers to use an ad blocker when they browse the internet:
Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily.
According to security researcher Kevin Beaumont, who first revealed the incident, some of the code that Adform used to load its ads on its customers’ websites was maliciously altered. The code was designed to trigger when it loaded in a victim’s web browser.
The malicious code replaced a victim’s crypto wallet address in their computer’s clipboard with crypto wallet addresses controlled by the hacker. The code replaces the crypto addresses in the clipboard every three seconds, all but guaranteeing that the victim will inadvertently paste in the attacker’s crypto wallet address and send their crypto to the hacker instead of its intended destination.
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