Caphaw Banking Malware Distributed via YouTube Ads
Feb 25, 2014
More than one billion of unique visitor spend about 6 billion hours on YouTube to watch videos, according to monthly YouTube Stats. Security researchers from Bromium Labs recently found that YouTube advertising network has been abused by rogue advertisers to distribute malware. YouTube In-Stream Ads were redirecting users to malicious websites, hosting the ' Styx Exploit Kit ' and was exploiting client side vulnerabilities by drive-by-download attack to infect users' computer with Caphaw Banking Trojan . The Exploitation process relied upon a Java vulnerability ( CVE-2013-2460 ) and after getting dropped into the target computer system, the malware detects the Java version installed on the operating system and based upon it requests the suitable exploit. "We don’t yet know the exact bypass which the attackers used to evade Google’s internal advertisement security checks. Google has informed us that they’re conducting a full investigation of this abuse an...
