Social engineering is used as an umbrella term for a broad spectrum of computer
exploitations that employ a variety of attack vectors and strategies to psychologically …

VirusTotal provides malware labels from a large set of anti-malware engines, and is heavily
used by researchers for malware annotation and system evaluation. Since different engines …

With the Internet becoming the dominant channel for marketing and promotion, online
advertisements are also increasingly used for illegal purposes such as propagating …

Malware sandboxes, widely used by antivirus companies, mobile application marketplaces,
threat detection appliances, and security researchers, face the challenge of environment …

Malicious web pages that use drive-by download attacks or social engineering techniques to
install unwanted software on a user's computer have become the main avenue for the …

Some of the world's most well-known IT companies are in fact advertising companies
deriving their primary revenues through digital advertising. For this reason, these IT giants …

Online advertising drives the economy of the World Wide Web. Modern websites of any size
and popularity include advertisements to monetize visits from their users. To this end, they …

Today, web injection manifests in many forms, but fundamentally occurs when malicious and
unwanted actors tamper directly with browser sessions for their own profit. In this work we …

Malvertising is a malicious activity that leverages advertising to distribute various forms of
malware. Because advertising is the key revenue generator for numerous Internet …

Ransomware is a very effective form of malware that is recently spreading out on an
impressive number of workstations and smartphones. This malware blocks the access to the …