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RBC 🇨🇦 Express AiTM Phishing Campaign
How AiTM malvertising bypasses MFA to drain Canadian business banking accounts, leaving victims in a months-long race to recover their stolen assets and…
Published on Roshan
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8 hrs ago
March 2026
Tracking Software Weaponized by Criminals
Inside four months of joint research with Infoblox Threat Intel on the abuse of Keitaro Software.
Mar 24
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Confiant
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Analyzing a Live AiTM Attack Targeting Google Accounts via Malvertising
We captured a malvertising campaign delivering an Adversary-in-the-Middle (AiTM) kit. Here, we unpack a paradox— an advanced payload undermined by…
Published on Roshan
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Mar 24
February 2026
Disrupting 59M Malicious Impressions: Inside D-Shortiez Testing Infrastructure and Campaign Management
Two clusters, one password, and the automated harvesting that blocked campaigns before deployment
Feb 24
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Confiant
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Michael Steele
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The Curious Case Of MutantBedrog's Trusted-Types CSP Bypass
MutantBedrog is a malvertiser that caught our attention early summer ’24 for their highly disruptive forced redirect campaigns and the unique JavaScript…
Feb 3
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Confiant
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Eliya Stein
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November 2025
Phantom Stores: Retail Impersonation Spreads Ahead of Black Friday Powered by Video Ads and Modular 'Holiday Skins' Kit
In the frenzied weeks leading up to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Ad Tech’s busiest season, a new cluster of phantom storefronts has surged into view.
Nov 24, 2025
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Confiant
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Roshan
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October 2023
ScamClub's Deceptive Landing Pages
Recently, I was involved in publishing Confiant’s ScamClub: Threat Report Q1-Q2 2023. During our investigation into this malvertising threat, we found…
Oct 26, 2023
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Confiant
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Michael Steele
September 2023
Exploring ScamClub Payloads via Deobfuscation Using Abstract Syntax Trees
ScamClub is a prolific threat actor in the programmatic ad space known to carry out large-scale attacks with the purpose of scamming and defrauding…
Sep 27, 2023
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Confiant
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May 2023
BadTrip: A chain of fake travel sites abuses search ads to commit fraud and credential theft
Brand impersonation and "cloaked" call-centers scale the scam up to more than 50,000 people. Scammers raking in upwards of $800 per victim.
May 17, 2023
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Confiant
February 2023
Malvertiser “D-Shortiez” abuses WebKit back button hijack in forced-redirect campaign
Over the last few years, as AdTech and browser security has continued to mature, many malvertisers have moved on from forced redirect campaigns that…
Feb 8, 2023
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Confiant
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Eliya Stein
January 2023
Malvertiser Makes the Big Bucks on Black Friday
Confiant’s broad coverage in ad tech gives us visibility on some of the darkest corners of the ecosystem.
Jan 20, 2023
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Confiant
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Jerome Dangu
December 2022
L’art de l’évasion: How Shlayer hides its configuration inside Apple proprietary DMG files
Originally written by Taha Karim
Dec 23, 2022
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Confiant
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