eGobbler hackers used Chrome bug to deliver 500Million+ ads to iOS users

From prodefence.org

Threat Group Exploits Chrome Bug to Serve Malicious Ads to iOS Users

Threat actors tracked as eGobbler developed a new exploit that is allowing them to serve more than 500 million malicious ads to iOS users.

The group tracked as eGobbler is exploiting a security flaw in the Google Chrome browser to target millions of iOS users.

Experts at security firm Confiant tracked the campaign since April 6, they estimate that more than 500 million malicious ads have been already served to iOS users.

The users are being redirected to scam “You’ve won a gift card” landing pages hosted on the “.world” TLD top-level domain previously associated with eGobbler.

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