Summer of StringRipper: Phishing Attack Scorches Digital Media Ecosystem
As extreme temperatures scalded the US and other parts of the globe in June, a highly evasive malvertising threat was bringing the heat to the digital media ecosystem. StringRipper phishing redirects exploded in June 2025, growing 15X month over month and becoming one of the most prolific attacks ever identified by The Media Trust. StringRipper […]
StringRipper Phishing Attack Grows 3X in Q1 2025
For the past several months, The Media Trust has been battling StringRipper, a fierce evolving malicious campaign forcing redirects and delivering phishing attacks via scareware. Display and native ad tags with StringRipper phishing attacks have tripled in the first quarter of 2025 — and the vast majority are coming from a single upstream ad partner […]